FROM TEXTILE MILL TO ART MUSEUM
In 1977, the more than a century-old Brandts Klædefabrik closed, and the buildings stood empty until 1982. In 1981, two merchants from Jutland purchased the textile mill.In 1982, by agreement with the Odense municipality, the two merchants from Jutland financed the renovation of the public part. The municipality was given the option of purchasing parts of the large exhibition building – an option used in 1995, when it acquired the public area of the building complex.The cultural institution now named Brandts was founded in 1987 in an old industrial building complex under the name of Brandts Klædefabrik (Brandt’s Textile Mill) as Denmark’s first international centre of art and culture. Today, Brandts also houses an Educational Centre, specializing in combining art and education, and Brandts Butik, the only art bookstore on the island of Funen.
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