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===Street art=== Bergen is considered to be the street art capital of Norway.<ref name="Ba.no">{{Cite web |date=24 March 2010 |title=Gatekunstens hovedstad |url=http://www.ba.no/puls/article5037839.ece |access-date=24 March 2010 |publisher=Ba.no |language=no}}</ref> Famed artist [[Banksy]] visited the city in 2000<ref name="Dagbladet.no">{{Cite web |title=Fikk Banksy-bilder som takk for overnatting |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/03/10/529267.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313025045/http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/03/10/529267.html |archive-date=13 March 2017 |access-date=10 March 2008 |publisher=Dagbladet.no |language=no}}</ref> and inspired many to start creating street art. Soon after, the city brought up the most famous street artist in Norway: [[DOLK (artist)|Dolk]].<ref name="autogenerated3">{{Cite web |date=8 September 2011 |title=Derfor valgte ikke DOLK Bergen |url=http://www.ba.no/puls/article5726885.ece |access-date=18 September 2011 |publisher=Ba.no |language=no}}</ref><ref name="Bt.no">{{Cite web |title=Populær Dolk selger så det suser |url=http://www.bt.no/bergenpuls/Popular-Dolk-selger-sa-det-suser-2579379.html#.T1OGAfEaND1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219010612/http://www.bt.no/bergenpuls/Popular-Dolk-selger-sa-det-suser-2579379.html#.T1OGAfEaND1 |archive-date=19 December 2014 |access-date=8 April 2011 |publisher=Bt.no |language=no}}</ref> His art can still be seen in several places in the city, and in 2009 the city council choose to preserve [[DOLK (artist)|Dolk]]'s work "Spray" with protective glass.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web |date=26 June 2009 |title=Forsvarer verning av graffiti |url=http://www.ba.no/nyheter/politikk/article4425460.ece |access-date=26 June 2009 |publisher=Ba.no |language=no}}</ref> In 2011, Bergen council launched a plan of action for street art in Bergen from 2011 to 2015 to ensure that "Bergen will lead the fashion for street art as an expression both in Norway and [[Scandinavia]]".<ref name="Bergen.kommune.no">{{Cite web |title=Bergenkommune.no – Graffiti og gatekunst i kulturbyen Bergen – Utredning og handlingsplan for perioden 2011–2015 |url=https://www.bergen.kommune.no/bk/multimedia/archive/00105/Graffiti_og_gatekun_105438a.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721063318/https://www.bergen.kommune.no/bk/multimedia/archive/00105/Graffiti_og_gatekun_105438a.pdf |archive-date=21 July 2013 |access-date=10 May 2011 |publisher=Bergen.kommune.no |language=no}}</ref> The Madam Felle (1831–1908) monument in Sandviken, is in honour of a Norwegian woman of German origin, who in the mid-19th century managed, against the will of the council, to maintain a counter of beer. A well-known restaurant of the same name is now elsewhere in Bergen. The monument was erected in 1990 by sculptor Kari Rolfsen, supported by an anonymous donor. Madam Felle, civil name Oline Fell, was posthumously remembered in a popular song, possibly originally a folksong,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davidsen |first=Knut B. |date=7 December 2002 |title=Var madam Felle Jonnemann sin mor? |trans-title=Was Madam Felle Jonnemann's Mother? |url=http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/Var-madam-Felle-Jonnemann-sin-mor-2406325.html#.UsJnmbmA2uo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101214925/http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/Var-madam-Felle-Jonnemann-sin-mor-2406325.html#.UsJnmbmA2uo |archive-date=1 January 2014 |access-date=31 December 2013 |work=[[Bergens Tidende]] |publisher=Media Norge, [[Schibsted]] |location=Bergen, Norway |language=nb}}</ref> "Kjenner Dokker Madam Felle?" by [[Lothar Lindtner]] and [[Rolf Berntzen]] on an album in 1977.
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