Image: Jens Søndergaards Museum
Lemvig Museum has secured the money to restore the three cement sculptures that stand by Jens Søndergaards Museum on the Bovbjerg cliff in western Denmark. According to the museum's own announcement of 23 June 2026, A. P. Møller Fonden granted 100,000 kroner and Færch Fonden 50,000 kroner, with the museum contributing 30,000 kroner of its own, a total of 180,000 kroner.
The museum describes three figures: a large male figure at the edge of the cliff facing the sea, and two female figures further inland along the path up to the museum. Salt wind, damp and exposed coastal weather have damaged the surfaces, caused cracking and left the reinforcement bare in places, which is why the museum considers the work necessary if the sculptures are to remain part of its story. The conservation is being carried out by Konserveringscenter Vejle and was expected to begin in late summer.
The sculptures on site today are casts made in 1997 to replace the originals, which were then in poor condition and no longer exist; the museum presents that as one reason for conserving the current versions. The restoration forms part of a wider renewal of Jens Søndergaards Museum, which has been working on its interpretation, its buildings and the link between the museum and the surrounding landscape.
Alongside the conservation, Lemvig Museum's September 2026 newsletter lists a new catalogue on Jens Søndergaard's art among the projects it has under way behind the scenes. The newsletter gives no title, author or publisher; the museum's own Strategi 2026–30 document schedules the publication of a catalogue for Jens Søndergaards Museum for autumn or winter 2026, without a fixed date.
Jens Søndergaards Museum is one of three visitor sites run by Lemvig Museum, with Lemvig Museum itself and Flyvholm Redningsstation. The Ferring museum is at Transvej 4, 7620 Lemvig; the museum's opening-hours page gives Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm in July and August and 10am to 4pm in September and October, with adult admission of 75 kroner, free entry under 18, and a ticket that covers both Lemvig Museum and Jens Søndergaards Museum. The kerb and pavement works mentioned in the newsletter, and the shorter 10am-to-3pm autumn hours quoted there, concern Lemvig Museum's own building at Vestergade 44 in Lemvig.
The same newsletter separates the Søndergaard projects from other work: a research project on the history of Vestersø, a former lake between Tørring and Hygum drained for farmland in 1958, and the school project ‘Under overfladen’, which is due to become an exhibition at Lemvig Museum during the autumn holiday and the rest of October.
