Arriving by car
Kistefos is located one hour north-west of Oslo. There are two entrances to the park with parking on both sides. People with reduced mobility are asked to arrive from Entrance South.
Entrance South: Arrival from Oslo via Klækken and Fylkesvei 241. Follow signs to Kistefos. See placement on Google Maps here.
Entrance North: Arrival from Ringerike / Jevnaker, via E16 and Bergerfossvegen. Address, Samsmoveien 41. See placement on Google Maps here.
Public transport
Vy has set up an express bus from Oslo to Kistefos on selected days during the season.
Where to find us
Kistefos, Samsmoveien, 41N-3520 Jevnaker, Norway Telephone: +47 61 31 03 83E, mail: post@kistefosmuseum.com
Season 2023
30th April - 16th October
Opening hours
- Tuesday - Sunday 10 - 17
- The sculpture park is always available, even outside regular opening hours and season
Tickets
- Adults 180,-
- Children (up to and including 16) Free
- Young (17 to 25) 150,-
- Senior (above 67) 150,-
- Groups 150,-
- Kistefos Member Adult 500,-
- Kistefos Member Young (up to 25) 400,-
- Kistefos Member Senior (above 67) 400,-
- Area ticket outside opening hours/season 100,-
- Tickets can be purchased online or at one of the entrances
2023 season
29th April - 15th October
Tue - Sun: 10 - 17
The sculpture park is always open
Plan your visit
The Ball by Ilya Kabakov. Photo: Hans Haug, Visit Innlandet.
The Twist. Photo: Kim Erlandsen.
Energy-Matter-Space-Time by Petroc Sesti. Photo: Maria Sandvik.
Experience Kistefos outside season
The sculpture park is open all year round, also outside of season and normal opening hours. The sculptures change character and expression in step with their surroundings, which makes a visit to the sculpture park a beautiful experience, all year round.
Note that some of the artwork may be turned off or wrapped due to the cold.
Photo: Ida Golberg
'Energy-Matter-Space-Time' by Petroc Sesti was unveiled in 2006. Raw organic power, especially related to water as a natural resource, is at the very core of both the wood pulp mill and Petroc Sesti’s sculpture. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
Kistefos - a cultural destination with a twist
Kistefos offers world-class architecture, industrial history, art exhibitions, and an impressive sculpture park in scenic surroundings.
Skulptur I, 2022, Tone Vigeland. Photo: Vegard Kleven.
Skulptur I, 2022 by Tone Vigeland. Photo: Vegard Kleven.
Sculpture by Norwegian artist Tone Vigeland unveiled 17th August
Tone Vigeland (b. 1939) has been a notable figure in Norwegian art since the late 1950s, and her jewellery has placed her in the front rank of Norwegian artisans. Vigeland has enriched the sculpture park with a work that is beautiful, simple and complex all at the same time. A form which in its interplay with the observer is in perpetual motion.
Pierre Huyghe, Variants, 2021 - ongoing. Scanned forest, real-time simulation, generative mutations and sounds, intelligent camera, environmental sensors, animals, plants, micro-organisms and materialized mutations: synthetic and biological material aggregate. Courtesy of the artist; Kistefos Museum; Hauser and Wirth, London. Photo: Ola Rindal © Pierre Huyghe.
Pierre Huyghe "Variants" opened 12th July
As the 50th artwork to be included in the park, a site-specific new commission by French artist Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962, Paris) was opened on the 12th of June. The vast permanent work will be the artist's largest site-specific work to date and the most ambitious to ever be conceived for Kistefos.
New York Times
What makes it a must-see cultural destination is The Twist, a new 15.000-square-foot structure spanning a river in the middle of the sculpture park.
The Twist. Photo: Laurian Ghinitoiu.
The Twist
The new fabulous museum at Kistefos, designed by world renowned architect Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG, opened Wednesday September 18th, 2019. The building has been named the top architectural museum project in the world to open in 2019, by both the Daily Telegraph and Bloomberg.
All of Nature Flows Through Us by Marc Quinn. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
Path of Silence by Jeppe Hein is a favorite of many - including the children, who use it as a fountain in it in the summer. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
Point of View - Part 1 by Elmgreen & Dragset. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
Sculpture park of international standing
The scenic sculpture park has an impressive collection of works by internationally renowned contemporary artists including Anish Kapoor, Jeppe Hein, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Fernando Bottero and Elmgreen & Dragset. The sculpture park focus is sight specific and international contemporary works of art and is available all year.
From the installation Movimenti della Memoria by Fabrizio Plessi. Photo: Einar Aslaksen.
The history
A/S Kistefos Træsliperi was established by consul Anders Sveaas in 1889. The wood pulp mill produced wood pulp used in the European paper industry.
Katy Vandekerckhove:
Kistefos was really a jewel on earth with high level art in fantastic surroundings