Museum Jorn, Silkeborg

Museum Jorn, Silkeborg

Museum Jorn - the entrance
Established	1965
Location	Gudenåvej 7-9 DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
Type	Art museum
Visitors	50.000
Director	Jacob Thage
Website	www.museumjorn.dk

Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, (formerly Silkeborg Kunstmuseum) is an art museum located by Gudenåen in Silkeborg, Denmark. The museum holds the collections that were developed by Asger Jorn (1914–1973) from the early 1950s until his death in 1973, since when they have doubled in extent.^[1][2]

In consequence, the museum is not only home to the most comprehensive collection of Jorn’s own works but also holds thousands of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by other artists – members of the CoBrA avant-garde art movement and older international artists who inspired Jorn or were kindred artistic spirits including, among others, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger and Man Ray.^{[3] [4]}