Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE — Attraction in Ålesund

Depressing although informative exhibit about the fire that destroyed the whole town in 1905. The way it works is you go in the "time machine" which is an elevator type room that gets dark and shows a montage of important historical events taking you back to 1905. Then each room has screens and you have to stand (or sit) and wait for it to finish in each room before moving on to the next. But the videos were SO long. They were each made up of a bunch of dramatic readings of peoples journals/accounts of what happened and it went on way longer than it needed to. It some points you're like yeah I get it can we move on please. Also I noticed a lot of the items out in the rooms with the videos have no label or information which I thought was strange. Like there's just a random brick on display. As for the architecture, in my opinion there weren't enough photos/examples. There were a couple displays of stained glass saying the creator did this because it's their xyz style but it just wasn't a lot to look at showing this is what we mean by art nouveau. Gift shop is cute. They have lots of books and some art by local people. Also candies and chocolates. There is wifi in the cafe but I didn't get signal anywhere else. Bathrooms are in the basement as are...

I absolutely can't get over the glass exit part. You are literally a museum about Art Nouveau/Lugendstil yet you build this hidious glass and steel exit to the modern exhibition part. Such a glaring missed oppertunity. You're trying to praise this architectural/art style yet you don't even take the time to stay true to it.

This entire city for this matter too. its putting its Art nouveau up front as its biggest eye catcher and tourist magnet but at no point is this being added to. No new Art nouveau is being built anywhere for at least 100 years. When you go inside tourist and art shops all you see is pictures and art of these beautiful unique works of art of buildings yet its not being respected at all. The town hall is a great example.

I have seen some great buildings but I honestly left...

This is a fine, small museum giving an overview of Norwegian Art Nouveau. There are some really great pieces in here, worth the visit. The Time Machine exhibition was closed though, which is a shame as I was looking forward to some information about the Ålesund fire. Also, the man at the desk was extremely patronizing. He also chased me down and used a faux threatening voice to insist I keep my tiny shoulder bag in front of me. His attitude put a dampener on the visit for me. The screening in Kube of ‘Journey to the Moon’ cheered me back up, as it does, but there wasn’t much else to see in...