The Museum of Religious Art opened the doors for its first exhibition in 1994. Among other works of art, the guests could experience the artist Bodil Kaalund’s (1930-2016) Bible illustrations, which constitute the foundation of the museum’s collection. It was Kaalund’s decoration of the Church of Lemvig, which inspired locals to initiate the establishment of a museum with the theme of religious art in Lemvig.

Within a few years, the museum established itself as a small but serious museum with ambitions special exhibitions e.g. with Marc Chagall and Edvard Munch. The museum was later extended with two galleries and today it owns a smaller collection of art by e.g. Kaalund, Alexander Tovborg, Maja Lisa Engelhardt, Georges Rouault, Peter Callesen, Peter Brandes, Laila Westergaard and John Kørner, together with arts and crafts and ethnographica from Greenland.

In this permanent exhibition, selected works of art from the collection are presented. Through a thematical curation, the works of art are put in a dialog across artists, aesthetics and religious observance.

The exhibitions first theme: Making the Divine Visible shows how different artists have worked with this mission. From the figurative over the abstract to nature picture. With fundamentally existential themes such as Life and Death, Faith and Doubt our intension is to make room for the visitors reflections about the big questions in life through the encounter with the arts.