Falstad Centre

From that time, the institution has also conducted extensive work on the development of the former camp area as a memorial landscape.

The Falstad Centre foundation was established in 2000 and is a national educational and documentation center covering the wartime history of prisoners of war, humanitarian law, and human rights.

In spring 2019, the Falstad Centre initiated the project “Faces of Power – Art in the Commander’s Residence,” Six artists and writers were invited to discuss and propose artistic expressions to be incorporated into the former commander’s house: Anne Helga Henning, Dag Hoel, Edvine Larsen, Tore Reisch, Ingrid Storholmen and Gulabuddin Sukhanwar, founder of Literature for Inclusion.

Now, the Commander’s Residence serves as a place for different artistic projects and welcomes visitors from Norway and Europe.

The exhibition 70-årsmarkering for ankomsten av jugoslaviske fanger til Norge under andre verdenskrig (Seventieth Anniversary of the Arrival of Yugoslav Prisoners in Norway during World War II) was held at the center in 2012.

The Falstad Centre's director, Tone Jørstad, guides a group in the woods where prisoners were killed. The relief Arkebusering (Execution by Firing Squad), by Odd Hilt , shows a German firing squad executing three Norwegian patriots.