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ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

ARoS Aarhus Art Museum

Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Photo: Erik Christensen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Aarhus, Denmark
Client / Owner
—
Year
Completed 2004
Access
Tickets required
Typology
Cultural
Style
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ARoS is an art museum in Aarhus, Denmark, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen and opened on April 7, 2004. It stands beside the Concert Hall Park. The article calls it modern, with a bright white exterior, white smooth interior walls and black-painted rooms in The 9 Spaces. It gives no construction dates or owner. The building has 10 stories and 20,700 square meters of floor area.

A grand spiral staircase and a roof terrace are inside. The 9 Spaces is a basement installation gallery whose name references Dante's Divine Comedy. Olafur Eliasson's Your rainbow panorama, a circular skywalk with rainbow-colored windows, was inaugurated on May 28, 2011, at a cost of 60 million kroner.

The article calls it the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen, with art collecting beginning in 1847. A 1,000-square-meter underground Salling Gallery opened in June 2025. It had 624,000 visitors in 2023. The article gives no hours.

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