ARoS Art Museum

ARoS - Aarhus Art Museum, established in 2004, and the museum has since proven that it is an attraction in absolute world class.
ARoS is the city's medieval name, meaning "city by the mouth of the river." the Aarhus Kunstmuseum, which moved to new premises in the center of Aarhus.
ARoS is next door to City Hall, the courthouse and the Concert Hall.

ARoS includes 17,800 m2 of nine storeys, and is the largest art museum in Northern Europe. The museum was inaugurated April 8 2004

Inside the Museum presents an impressive curved space which divides the museum into two halves from the ground floor to the roof, a total of nine floors.
Walkways and staircases linking the two halves and all the floors together into a whole.

On floors saves the exhibition spaces themselves, including a children's museum. Bottom available information center and a cafeteria, and top rooftop restaurant overlooking the city and the Bay of Aarhus.
Museum absolute masterpiece is the five feet high and realistic sculpture Boy of the Australian artist Ron Mueck. The boy squatting, and the eyes are very vivid, as if something is in store.

On the roof, the Icelandic artist Olafur Elissson created the spectacular work of art Your Rainbow Panorama.

ARoS consists of three galleries, each with an exhibition area of  just over 1,000 m2, which includes works from about 1770 and up to today, which corresponds to a collection of about 9,000 works.

A of the museum's gems is the large collection of Danish modernist art early 1900s, and the world's largest Per Kirkeby collection.

In temporary exhibition gallery exhibited annually three big international exhibitions.

8th floor with great views of Aarhus lies ART restaurant that keeps open for both lunch and evening events. At street level, next of kunstmseets cafe is ARoS shop that offers a wide on Books in design, art and architecture.