Art galleries in Trondheim

Trondheim, Trøndelag has 14 art galleries on the map. That's 14 galleries mapped around Trondheim. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Trondheim (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Galleri Ismene and Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, plus Sukker. If a gallery's missing from Trondheim's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Trondheim gallery lineup

14 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Trondheim

6 of the 14 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

11 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

11 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Trondheim gallery walk

Making a day of it in Trondheim? Work this order: Galleri Ismene, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Sukker, Modern Art Gallery, Znedi, Kunsthall Trondheim, Galleri, and Galleri 7. That's the gallery walk in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 6 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Trondheim

How the regulars do Trondheim's galleries:

• Trust your own reaction at Galleri Ismene. You don't need the wall text's permission to love or hate a piece. Your honest reaction is the whole point of going.
• Buy the catalogue at Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst. Exhibition catalogues are the affordable art book. They sell out after the show closes.
• Follow the galleries online. Openings and one-night events get announced on social media first. One follow catches them all.
• Bring a curious friend. Art is better with someone to argue with about it. The disagreement is the point.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Trondheim — 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 Trondheim can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 14, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 14 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.