House-museum of the Norwegian-American sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen (Bergen, 1872-Rome, 1940), who lived in Rome from the late 19th century until his death. The villa was built and decorated by him starting from 1922 in an eclectic neo-Renaissance style.
On the ground floor, there are two large studios with the artist’s works; on the first floor, his residence, now used for temporary exhibitions dedicated to foreign artists from the 19th and 20th centuries to contemporary times.
The museum preserves the works of sculptor and painter Hendrik Christian Andersen. The collection of works (over two hundred sculptures of large, medium, and small sizes in plaster and bronze; over two hundred paintings; over three hundred graphic works) is remarkable for its exceptional nature, being almost entirely focused around the utopian idea of a great “World City,” intended to be the international seat of a perpetual laboratory of ideas in the fields of arts, sciences, philosophy, religion, and physical culture.
