Munch Museum Oslo

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Entrance to the Munch Museum

The Munch-Museum ( Norwegian Munch-museet ) in Oslo , Norway , is an art museum that contains the posthumous works of Edvard Munch , which the world-famous painter and graphic artist bequeathed to the city of Oslo in 1940. The museum opened on May 29, 1963, around a hundred years after the artist was born.

The building

Building view

The building at Tøyengata 53 in Tøyen , Ostoslo, was designed by architects Gunnar Fougnerud and Einar My Klebust. The latter was also the architect of a significant expansion and renovation in the early 1990s. The new museum was inaugurated in 1994 on the 50th anniversary of Munch's death. While the original museum was financed from income from the Oslo cinemas, funds for the final phase of construction could be provided through a contract with the Japanese company Idemitsu Kōsan .

The museum now includes exhibition rooms, photography and conservation studios, offices, a library and magazines. In the center of the museum there is a lecture hall that is also used for exhibitions, concerts, theater and film screenings. There is a museum shop and a café in the new entrance area. The security measures, especially around Munch's painting The Scream , have been tightened because of previous thefts.

The new Munch Museum (also called Lambda)

The museum is in poor structural condition; the new building in Bjørvika at the harbor, near the opera, is expected to open in autumn 2020.

The collection

Oslo 2006, two years after the last theft and serious damage. Strict security for the picture “ The Scream ” in the Munch Museum.

Edvard Munch's legacy to the city of Oslo comprised around 1,100 paintings, 15,500 graphic sheets of 700 motifs, 4,700 drawings and six sculptures . There were also almost 500 printing plates, 2,240 books, notebooks, documents, photographs, tools, props and furniture. Munch's extensive collection of letters, together with a considerable number of original works, most of which date from the 1880s, was later given to the museum by his sister Ingrid Munch.

This and other donations, along with barter transactions, have contributed to the fact that more than half of Munch's paintings, all of his graphic motifs and all of the existing printing plates are in the museum's possession. The Munch Museum Oslo thus offers very good conditions internationally for special exhibitions and worldwide exhibition activities.

With the library and the magazines, the Munch Museum Oslo provides important sources of information for scientists and students.

The Munch researcher Arne Eggum headed the museum from 1993 to 2001 .

For more paintings in the collection, see the list of paintings by Edvard Munch .

Web links

Commons : Paintings by Edvard Munch in the Munchmuseet  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Art magazine art , issue 2/2001, pages 12–25: A realist of feelings  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 28, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
  2. NTB: Åpningen av Munchmuseet utsettes. January 27, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 (Norwegian).

Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 27 ″  E