With generous support from Spar Nord, ARoS's exhibition gallery on Level 5 will be transformed into a lively workshop for families to experience the work of curating and putting together an art exhibitions.   

The gallery will be set up with 16 work stations where families can explore, develop and unfold their exhibition concepts – dressed in the tradition white gloves. For the occasion, ARoS has created reproductions of 50 different works from the ARoS collection so that the workshop participant can install their own exhibition and the rest of the museum's visitors can admire the new collection exhibitions.   

"Children, young people and families are important to ARoS, and we want to offer our visitors – at all ages – engaging and inspiring encounters with art. The museum's collection holds over 250 years of historical knowledge, and the artworks give our visitors the opportunity to tell their own stories and communicate their view of the world through art," says Rebecca Matthews, Museum Director at ARoS.  

Among the reproductions will also be works that cannot otherwise be experienced at the museum because they are currently in ARoS' art storage. ARoS's education assistants will be available to provide extra knowledge about the works and to offer advice and feedback.  

It will also be possible to colour in drawings of selected works from the collection or assemble giant jigsaw puzzles, also with motifs from the works in the ARoS collection.   

"ARoS' activities for the winter holidays gives children and young people the opportunity to try their hand at creativity and producing art exhibitions together. The programme is inclusive and does not require prior knowledge of art or art history, and it’s a pleasure for Spar Nord Fonden to support this," says Bo Uggerhøj, Foundation Director at Spar Nord Fonden. 

The activities will take place from February 10–18, 2024 from 10am - 4pm every day.  

From February 10, 2024 ARoS will also open the doors to a rehang of the museum's collection gallery on Level 6. The exhibition is called ARoS Collection: 1960 - now, and surveys work by Andy Warhol, Lene Adler, Bjørn Nørgaard, Per Kirkeby and Olafur Eliasson, among others.  

On Level 6, visitors can also experience ARoS' iconic sculpture Boy in the company of two other works by Australian sculptor Ron Mueck, including A Girl, a five-metre long and highly detailed sculpture of a newborn baby, and Woman with Shopping, a smaller than life-size figure thematising motherhood and the passage of life. 

ARoS' special winter holiday activities are open to all and free after paid admission to the museum. Admission to the museum is always free for everyone under the age of 18.  

Food can be enjoyed on Level 3 in the 'Food Box' and child-friendly servings can be purchased in the Café on Level 4.