KODE 1—part of KODE Museums, one of Norway’s largest art institutions—is a rehabilitation project of all the spaces in the centenary building receiving the public. The refurbishment reorganizes the museum and for the first time exposes its reserves in the form of a revisited principle of a ‘cabinet of curiosity’. This unfolding wall contributes differently to the spaces it creates: as a back drop exhibition wall, as an enclosure, and as a filter between the public spaces of the museum—the cafe/restaurant, shop, children’s room, conference room and library space—and the working spaces of the museum, for the first time exposed to the public. This establishes a new dialectic between the thick stone walls of the old institution, the museum workspaces and the public. New modular furniture was created to cater for the various spaces and programmes, inspired by ancient nordic museum displays with slender steel units and flexible arrangements. A white steel mesh ceiling and custom-made carpets and curtains complete a list of key interior elements that were added to the museum to give it a new civic presence in the city. Located in Bergen’s cultural quarter, the building designed by Henry Bertram Bucher dates from 1897 and was erected as a cultural monument in the Italian Neo-Renaissance style, hosting the city’s permanent collection for fine craft and design ever since. The new KODE 1 Decorative Art Museum opens the institution to the city both visually and programmatically.