Exhibition: Mitt Stavanger

In 2025, Stavanger will be celebrating the cathedral’s and the city’s 900 year anniversary. The anniversary exhibition is an important part of this celebration, and opens the summer prior to the anniversary.

Time travel

Creating Mitt Stavanger has been a comprehensive process. In the exhibition, the audience will get to experience travelling through time with people and objects that tell the stories of what it was like to live in Stavanger through the years.

What was life like in Stavanger in the year 1200? Or how about in the 1500s? And what is important to the people who inhabit the city today? The exhibition explores what occupied the people of the past. What were their thoughts and dreams, what were they afraid of and what kind of work did they do? Which objects were important to them, and why?

Artists and historians

The project managers Mette Tveit and Kristoffer H. Endresen have worked alongside an extensive team of museum collegues and external collaborators to bring the exhibition which fills up the entire third floor of the museum to life.

A unique aspect of the exhibition is the collaboration with contemporary artists who have been responsible for creating the exhibition spaces representing each century, from year 1100 until today.

Maiken Stene has created the room presenting the 1100s and 1200s. John Raustein has worked on the 1300-1400s, the work of Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen fills the room that portrays the 1500 and 1600s. The 1700s has been created by Nils-Thomas Økland, and the room of the 1800s has been shaped by Arne Nøst. Elin Reboli Melberg is the artist behind the room portraying the 1900s, and Linda Lamignan has created the 2000s room.

While going from one room to the next, the audience will partake in a time travel between the different centuries. The element that ties it all together is the soundscape composition by Nils Henrik Asheim.

Please note: For some, the soundscape in the exhibition can be experienced as loud. The sound is sequential and will vary in volume from room to room.

Important patrons 

The anniversary exhibition is supported by the Inge Steensland Foundation, Sparebankstiftelsen SR Bank, Stavanger 2025 and the Norwegian Arts Council.