Norways Kistefos Museum has named the eight architecture firms shortlisted to design a new building on its campus. The announcement comes less than a year after the Kistefos Museum Foundation invited 28 carefully selected offices to submit qualifications for the competition. The eight shortlisted firms are:Kistefos Museum is known for its expansive sculpture park with streams running through it. The new building will be charged with hosting the art collection of Christen Sveaas, a wealthy Norwegian businessman, who is likewise financing the project at Kistefos. The competition is organized by Malcolm Reading Consultants.Many of the shortlisted firms are behind other recent art museum commissions. In February, Lina Ghotmeh was announced the winner of a competition to renovate the British Museums Western Range Galleries. This came not long after SO IL won the bid to design a new campus in North Boulder, Colorado.More recently, Christ & Gantenbein won a competition to design a new museum of modern art in Antwerp, Belgium. Kengo Kuma & Associates shared its vision last week for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, after it was shortlisted for that Kansas City commission last November. Malcolm Reading Consultants is behind many of these competitions, including the British Museums and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. BIG has previously worked with Kistefos Museum; its Denmark office built The Twista 10,700-square-foot building that hovers above a river with three showrooms that completed in 2019.In a statement about this upcoming project at Kistefos, Malcolm Reading, chairman of Malcolm Reading Consultants, said the The new gallery will provide a state-of-the-art flexible home for Christen Sveaas notable collection and create a dramatic presence in the landscape, while also being an exemplar of sustainable design and practices.Kari Roll-Matthiesen, Kistefos director, said the forthcoming building at Kistefos Museum will not only serve as a gallery but will be a work of art in itself.We have extensive experience in commissioning site-specific artworks for thesculpture park, and in the same way, this new museum building will need to relateto the landscape and history of the site, Roll-Matthiesen added.For next steps, each of the eight offices will receive a detailed project brief, and begin work on concept sketches.A winning proposal will be announced at the end of 2025.