Ibsen Museum
The Ibsen Museum in Oslo is a literary museum for the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen .
The apartment
On the hundredth anniversary of the playwright's death, Ibsen's former apartment in Oslo - this is where he created his last dramas - was subjected to an extensive restoration and reopened on May 23, 2006 with its original furnishings. With financial support from donors and lenders, an authentic impression of the poet's home, in which he lived from 1895 until his death in 1906, was created. Furniture was returned, floors, walls and ceilings reconstructed after structural, archaeological investigations, supplemented by a range of information from historical sources. Tablecloths, curtains and door curtains, the materials of which had suffered damage over time, were rewoven to match the originals.
The apartment liquidation in 1914
When Suzannah Ibsen died in 1914, the apartment was closed and the inventory distributed. The city of Kristiania took over Henrik Ibsen's study and bedroom and deposited them in the Norwegian Open Air Museum . The District Museum in Skien , now the Telemark Museum , received the library and the Ibsen House, now the Grimstad City Museums , received the dining room. The rest of the inventory remained in the family's possession.
The actor Knut Wigert and the Ibsen family
In 1990 the actor Knut Wigert took the initiative and rented the apartment to make it accessible to the public. As a basis for further restoration and documentation, investigations were carried out in the most important rooms of the apartment. The Norwegian Folk Museum took over management in 1993. The study was returned, but limited funds and a lack of original items for the rest of the apartment meant that only the study could be fully presented.
The Ibsen family contributed greatly to the result. Ambassador Tancred Ibsen made a large number of his great-grandfather's personal items available on permanent loan or as gifts. His cousin, actor Joen Bille , helped track down and buy back original inventory for years.
literature
- Erik Henning Edvardsen : Ibsen-museet / The Ibsen Museum . Ibsenmuseet. Oslo 1998. ISBN 82-91615-02-0 .
- Museum bulk no. 1 - 2006. Norsk Folkemuseums venner, Oslo
- Erik Henning Edvardsen: «Hva dikterjubileer kan føre til. Henrik Ibsen flytter hjem »(pp. 47-61). Att skapa och vårda minne. Conferences for literary museums och författar- och kompositörhem in the north. 28/9 - 1/10 2006 i Växjö, Sverige . Strindbergsmuseet / Nordisk Culture Fund. Stockholm 2007.
DVD
- Ibsen's bathtub. The restoration of Henrik Ibsen's apartment von Erling Borgen . Borgen Production / Norsk Folkemuseum .
photos
Henrik Ibsen’s apartment at Arbins Straße 1 and Henrik Ibsens Straße 24-26
Ibsen with the Vasa order, the Dannebrog order and the Turkish Medijdij order ribbon as necklaces. Photograph by W. Höffert in Dresden , 1871
Ibsen at the National Theater in Oslo with the statue of Stephan Sinding in the background. Photography by Narve Skarpmoen
Henrik Ibsen. Cabinet picture by Gustav Borgen, 1898. Christian Fr. Sontum, Sandefjords Bad, 1900
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Coordinates: 59 ° 54 '54.2 " N , 10 ° 43' 37.4" E