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Specialty Museum Attractions In Maloy

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Måløy is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Vågsøy in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. Måløy is located on the southeastern side of the island of Vågsøy, about 3 kilometres northeast of the village of Holvika and about 6 kilometres south of the village of Raudeberg. The Måløy Bridge connects the town centre to the area of Deknepollen on the mainland. Sør-Vågsøy Church is located in Måløy. Måløy is one of the most important fishing ports in the Norway. In 1997, Måløy was granted town status by the municipality. The 1.93-square-kilometre village has a population of 3,242; giving the village a population density...
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  • 1. Hamsunsenteret Hamaroy
    The Knut Hamsun Centre is a museum and educational centre in Hamarøy in Northern Norway dedicated to the life and work of the writer Knut Hamsun.The architect Steven Holl was first contacted about designing a centre for Knut Hamsun in 1994. He traveled to Hamarøy and made a watercolour of the centre's design that looks quite similar to the building today. Holl was inspired by the Hamarøy nature and scenery, by Norwegian building tradition with stave churches and sod roofs, and by Hamsun's literature—especially the early works Hunger and Mysteries . Steven Holl has described the Knut Hamsun Centre as concretizing a Hamsun character in architectonic terms, and he continues: The concept for the museum, 'Building as a Body:Battleground of invisible Forces,' is realized from inside and out...
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