Art galleries in Ålesund

Galleries are best taken slowly. Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal has 5 mapped right now. That's 5 galleries mapped around Ålesund. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Opening nights are the cheat code — free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that actually wants to talk about the work.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Ålesund (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Studio Hugo Opdal and Galleri Akvarellen, plus Ragnhild Søvik art studio. If a gallery's missing from Ålesund's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Ålesund gallery lineup

5 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Ålesund

None of the 5 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Smaller galleries can keep irregular hours, so check the website before a special trip.

The Ålesund gallery walk

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Studio Hugo Opdal, Galleri Akvarellen, Ragnhild Søvik art studio, Galleri Sankten, and KHÅK kunsthall. That's 5 stops on the Ålesund gallery walk.

Gallery tips for Ålesund

A few things worth knowing before you work through Ålesund's art galleries:

• The bookshop corner is curated at Studio Hugo Opdal. Gallery bookshops stock the art books the big stores don't. Worth ten minutes on the way out.
• Take the long way through at Galleri Akvarellen. Galleries reward slow looking. One extra lap always reveals something the first pass missed.
• Bring a curious friend. Art is better with someone to argue with about it. The disagreement is the point.
• Many galleries are free. Smaller and artist-run spaces often charge nothing. When in doubt, check the website rather than assuming.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Ålesund — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Ålesund can take a while to appear. The 5 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 5 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.