The National Gallery of the Faroe Islands - Past, present and future
Opening of the special exhibition on Friday 16 June at 16-18
30 years ago Listasavn Føroya - the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands - was ready to welcome guests into its newly-built museum with ample space for a large art collection which would form the core of the museum’s future activities: collecting, conservation, research into and dissemination of Faroese art.
The exhibition opens on Friday 16 June at 16-18.
Program:
Karina Lykke Grand, director, welcomes
The artist Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir gives a speech
A greeting from Sirið Stenberg, Minister of Culture and Social Affairs, is read out
The exhibition opens
Poetry walk around the museum: Búi Rouch and Gunnvør Hoydal Brimnes, poets, read poems about pictures and art in various places in the museum.
Knút Háberg Eysturstein, musician, plays some songs.
There will be free entry and everyone is welcome.