River Festival
The River Festival takes place every year in Drammen. The festival features concerts, fun fair, dragon boats, raft racing and bathtub rowing. More than 100 different events take place during the River Festival.
Central Drammen
Drammen has long traditions as meeting place and commercial center for a rich region.
You will never be bored on a walk through Drammen. Starting from the two market squares, linked by a bridge, you are bound to have a great day. In central Drammen alone there are 40 eating places, ranging from small cafés to elegant restaurants, whose menus will satisfy any need, from simple dishes to Norwegian specialities and special menus from severel countries.
Central Drammen also holds more than 300 shops selling all kinds of commodities. Bragernes Torg provides the setting for numerous events, especially in summer when a colorful, fascinating market sells agricultural produce, flowers and plants. This square is the largest in Scandinavia and lined by several old, interesting buldings from the time after 1866, that is after the great fire had devastated the entire district.
A stroll on the square
You can listen to concerts and other entertainment on a walk across the square, or just sit down by St. Hallvard's Fountain, a pretty specimen relating the history of the local saint.
Jazz lovers will soon find out that Drammen is a little New Orleans. Quality music can be enjoyed at Børs'n and other restaurants.
Looking for art?
Should you be art hunting, to enjoy it or maybe to buy an exclusive piece of art, Drammen Kunstforening (art society) runs a first-class gallery where special exhibitions take place throughout the year. Several other galleries welcome visitors, and the shops offer a wide selection of goods.
Drammen's Theater
More than a performance!
Drammen's Theater is not just a theater, but also a central actor in the local cultural and business life.
See the exciting offers:
- Teatercaféen - the most sophisticated restaurant in town with a modern "cross over" cuisine. Catering.
- Rooms for meetings or seminars, accommodating up to 400 participants - Hovedscenen and Studioscenen stages as well as Harmonien Concert Hall.
- Purchase of a closed performance/part of a performance for employees, clients, friends.
- Reception or a light meal/refreshments for smaller or larger groups before/after performance or during the intermission.
- Meeting with artists/actors after the performance.
- Conducted tour of the theater.
- Lectures by theater staff.
