Kulturværftet

Kulturværftet ( German " The Culture Yard " ) in the Danish town of Helsingør is the cultural center of Helsingør municipality. It is housed in the buildings of the former shipyard in the port of Helsingør Helsingør Skibsværft. Located between Kronborg Castle and Danserindebrønden are there on an area of ​​13,000 sqm including the Værftmuseet (shipyard museum) and the Central Library of the Helsingør municipality.

The building 10 ( Bygning 10), the former office building of the shipyard, now includes a showroom and office premises of the library. The shipyard museum at the entrance of the building documents the over one hundred year history of Helsingør Skibværft, which was the largest employer long time focal point of the city. The buildings 12 and 13 accommodate the reading rooms of the library, spread over three floors. There are also meeting rooms, workshops, a café and restaurant are housed. For among other things, concerts, conferences, theater performances are a small hall (Lille Scene ) and a large multi-purpose hall with stage and 500 seats and 1000 standing places (Store Scene ) available. A new glass building ( Bygning 11) and the arcaded buildings are interconnected.

Kulturværftet was opened on 10 October 2010 at 10:10 clock after the shipyard was remodeled and expanded according to plans by the architects AART A / S from 2008 to 2010 for 286 million DKR. The proposal of the Aarhus architects won an open architectural competition, which was announced by the Helsingør municipality together with the Akademisk Arkitekturforening in December 2005. The work was carried out within the project Kulturhavn Kronborg, be converted in which up to 2012 parts of the port to the culture area ( Kulturmområde Helsingør ). This concept also opened the 2013 Museet for Søfart, which was built underground to the old dry dock around heard.