But not far away in the redeveloped Bassin à Flots dockland area is the astonishing La Base Sous-Marine, a brutish building that was a former U-boat bunker that now serves as an exhibition space for photography, festivals and performing art events.
"I think my first real exploration was an abandoned u-boat bunker from the Second World War.
It coordinated the building of the first U-boat bunker in Bergen, codenamed Bruno, as well as several other U-boat bunkers along the Norwegian coast.
Planning for the first U-boat bunker in Bergen began in late 1940 and was undertaken by the German military engineering group, the Todt Organisation.
Initial planning for many U-boat bunkers began in late 1940 and starting in 1941, the Todt Organisation began the construction of bunkers in Bergen and Trondheim.
Two U-boat bunkers, codenamed "Dora I" and "Dora II", were planned to be built in Trondheim to provide additional repair facilities outside Germany itself.
A large expansion program was conducted at the base and several new anti-aircraft guns were set up to protect the U-boat bunkers.
A non-functional lighthouse, shipwrecked fishing boat, and the bunker (a site built to test-launch missiles during the Cold War's Operation Condor), are the main landmark attractions.
As late as the 1950's, Greenport supported large-scale oystering and commercial fishing, with a dozen 120-foot "bunker boats" with 22-member crews operating out of the harbor.
Turning the gallery into a haunted bunker or U-boat, laden with the beds of dying heroes, Kiefer makes history new and horrible.
These boxes would be lifted out of the boats, positioned by crane over a bunker or cart and emptied by releasing the chains on the base.
