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===Museum and art gallery=== Today Blaafarveværket is a large [[open-air museum|open-air]] industrial museum and [[art gallery]]. In 1968 a project to make Blaafarveværket available to the public as an industrial museum was started, on the initiative of Kjell Rasmus Steinsvik and his wife Tone Sinding Steinsvik. In 1970 the non-profit foundation ''Stiftelsens Modums Blaafarveværket'' was founded. Blaafarveværket has since become one of the most important art galleries in Scandinavia, and has over the years exhibited the works of many major Norwegian and foreign artists. In the summer of 2003, the gallery hosted an exhibition of the paintings of Queen [[Margrethe II of Denmark]]. In 1993, the old cobalt mines opened as a tourist attraction, and the entire area now serves as a large open-air museum.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.blaa.no/Kategori/About-us/875.php|title= Royal Modum Blaafarveværk|publisher= Blaafarveværket|accessdate= February 5, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160216040755/http://www.blaa.no/Kategori/About-us/875.php|archive-date= 2016-02-16|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.kulturminnesok.no/Lokaliteter/Buskerud/Modum/BLAAFARVEVAERKET-BLAAFARGEVERKET-museum|title= Blåfargeverket museum|publisher= Kulturminnesøk|accessdate= February 5, 2016|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130628180725/http://www.kulturminnesok.no/Lokaliteter/Buskerud/Modum/BLAAFARVEVAERKET-BLAAFARGEVERKET-museum|archivedate= June 28, 2013}}</ref> Since the 1990s Blaafarveværket has been the largest and best preserved traditional mining museum in Europe, and one of Norway's most visited attractions.<ref name=byavisa/> It is presented to the public like the mining company it was during its heyday around 1840. The museum and art gallery are operated by the foundation on a non-profit basis and are funded partially by public and private grants and partially by tickets sales and related activities. The former [[Kongsberg Silver Mines]] with the current [[Norwegian Mining Museum]] is located about 30 kilometres from Blaafarveværket, but the museum and the parts of the former silver mines that are open to the public are significantly less extensive, and the preserved parts of the mining environment are more limited.
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