Sustainability

Kunsten’s Environmental Policy

Kunsten...

• Saves nature’s resources and strives to minimise its impact on the environment.

• Constantly seeks new knowledge and technology to ensure greater environmental protection.

• Launches initiatives and utilises products that save energy and water.

• Ensures a high degree of recycling and minimisation of waste.

• Encourages our suppliers to mirror our environmental standards.

• Constantly complies with Green Attraction criteria and actively deploys the scheme’s recommendations.

Special efforts in Brasserie Kunsten

The menu at Brasserie Kunsten is always based on the best seasonal ingredients – preferably local produce. A large and ever-increasing part of the Brasserie’s ingredients and products are organic or produced with respect for the environment. We save resources in production and strive to avoid food waste. The aim of all these efforts is to serve you a delicious meal that you can enjoy with a clear conscience.

Help us become an even greener museum!

Do you have any suggestions or comments on how Kunsten could attain a greener future on the basis of initiatives, partnerships and creative ideas? If so, please email us at  green@kunsten.dk.

In 2022, Kunsten became the first art museum to be awarded the ‘Green Attraction’ distinction.

What can our visitors do?

Help us sort waste correctly

Guests have the opportunity to sort waste into three fractions: paper, residual waste and plastic.

Jump on a bike!

• Aalborg Tours
• Aalborg Cykeludlejning
• Aalborg MTB Udlejning

Eat sustainably

• Restaurant Jørn (Bronze organic eating label)
• We Feat (Bronze organic eating label)
• Husets Café (Bronze organic eating label)
• Kaffe Fair, Strandvejen, Fyrkildevej og Nørresundby (Bronze organic eating label)
• Norður Restaurant, Plantbased restaurant
• Alimentum

Explore the nature and sustainable experiences in the local area

• Utzon Center - Temporary exhibitions featuring the best architects in the world and latest global trends, with a major focus on sustainability.
• Aalborg Kongres og Kulturcenter - The first event venue in Denmark to be awarded SDG certification.
• Vestre Fjordpark - Just outside Aalborg city centre you will find Vestre Fjordpark - Aalborg’s huge outdoor swimming pool and activity area. 
• Østerådalen - Just 3 km from the heart of Aalborg is Østerådalen, an area of natural beauty that extends from Over Kæret, via Svenstrup and Ellidshøj, to Dal Møllevej.
• Egholm - This idyllic island is definitely worth a visit! There is a myriad of wonderful experiences all year round.

Sustainable stays

• Comwell Hotel Hvide Hus (Bronze organic eating label) (Green key)
• Aalborg Airport Hotel (Bronze organic eating label) (Green key)
• Zleep Hotel Aalborg (Bronze organic eating label)
• Scandic Aalborg City (Bronze organic eating label)
• Pier 5 Hotel (Green key) 
• Hotel Scheelsminde (Green key) 
• Milling Hotel Gestus (Green key) 
• Radisson Blu Limfjord Hotel Aalborg (Green key) 
• KOMPAS Hotel Aalborg (Green key) 

What can our suppliers do?

As a certified Green Attraction, we need to fulfil a wide range of criteria for environmentally friendly operation. Accordingly, we make constant demands on our suppliers, so they too get the chance to do something. Therefore, we generally take a positive view of partners who make an active effort on behalf of the environment and constantly seek to reduce the environmental impact of a product or service. This could be anything from minimising their consumption of water, energy and chemicals to the use of less, and environmentally friendly packaging, mode of transport etc. etc.