The Stenersen Museum is an art museum in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 at Munkedamsveien 15.

The museum shows both international and Norwegian art. The museum also houses three main art collections, donated to the Oslo municipality (and the former Aker

Aker, Norway

Aker is a former municipality in Akershus, which lends its name to a municipality and a county in Norway. The name originally belonged to a farm which was located near the current Old Aker Church...

 municipality) by Rolf E. Stenersen, Amaldus Nielsen

Amaldus Nielsen

Amaldus Clarin Nielsen was a Norwegian painter.-Early life:He was born in Halse as a son of shipmaster and merchant Niels Clemetsen Nielsen and his wife Andrea Marie Møller . He grew up in Mandal in Vest-Agder county, Norway. He lived most of his childhood and adolescence without a father...

's heirs, and Ludvig O. Ravensberg. The collections were given in 1936, 1933, and 1972 respectively, but the museum did not open until 1994.

In 2008 plans were finalized for the Stenersen Museum to relocate to Bjørvika

Bjørvika

Bjørvika is a neighborhood in the Sentrum borough of Oslo, Norway. The area is an inlet in the inner Oslofjord, situated between Gamlebyen and Akersness. It serves as an outlet for the river Akerselva. Since the 2000s, it has been undergoing urban redevelopment, being transformed from a container...

 and occupy a new building near the Oslo Opera House

Oslo Opera House

The Oslo Opera House is the home of The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building is situated in the Bjørvika neighborhood of central Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. It is operated by Statsbygg, the government agency which manages property for...

 together with the Munch Museum

Munch Museum

Munch Museum is an art museum in Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.-Munch Museum:...

.