Rockheim
Norway's national museum of popular music, in a converted quayside warehouse with a cantilevered top.
Rockheim is the national museum of popular music in Norway, opened in August 2010 on the Brattora quayside in Trondheim. The Trondheim practice Pir II converted a 1960s grain warehouse and crowned it with a wide illuminated box that cantilevers out over the harbour, its facade patterned after record sleeves. The museum forms part of the Museene i Sor-Trondelag group and sits a short walk from the railway station and the city centre.
The permanent display on the top floor runs as a time journey from the 1950s to the present, tracing Norwegian rock, pop, hip hop and electronic music through instruments, costumes, recordings and interactive stations. Lower floors hold the Hall of Fame, which honours artists who shaped Norwegian popular music, and LydLab, a studio where visitors can build electronic tracks. Changing shows occupy Rockheim Temporaer and Rockheim Galleri, and the fifth floor has a restaurant looking over the fjord.
Highlights
- Illuminated cantilevered top floor above a converted grain warehouse
- Time journey through Norwegian popular music from the 1950s onwards
- Hall of Fame honouring leading Norwegian artists
- LydLab, a hands-on electronic music studio for visitors
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