KODE, West Norway Museum of Decorative Art
Decorative arts museum in an 1896 exhibition hall, famed for a vast collection of Chinese art.
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This guide to Permanenten, home of KODE's West Norway Museum of Decorative Art in Bergen, follows the money behind the museum's Chinese collection. It moves between a Bergen soldier who made his career in late imperial China, the thieves who came through the roof in two thousand ten, and a Chinese billionaire's visit in twenty thirteen. It also reaches back to the looting of Beijing's Old Summer Palace in eighteen sixty. Best heard outside the building, looking up at its roof.
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