House-museum of the Norwegian-American sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen (Bergen, 1872-Rome, 1940), who lived in Rome from the end of the nineteenth century until his death.

He had the building built and decorated starting in 1922 in an eclectic neo-Renaissance style. On the front door there is an inscription bearing the words Villa Helene, a dedication from the sculptor to his mother. On the ground floor there are two large studios with the artist’s works. The first floor houses his residence, which is now used for temporary exhibitions dedicated to foreign artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries up to the present day.

The Museum houses the works of the sculptor and painter Hendrik Christian Andersen. The collection of works (over two hundred large, medium and small sculptures in plaster and bronze; over two hundred paintings and over three hundred graphic works) stands out for its exceptional nature, being almost entirely centred around the utopian idea of a great “World City”, destined to be the international headquarters of a perennial laboratory of ideas in the field of arts, sciences, philosophy, religion and physical culture.