Tag: Munch
Munch Museum’s costs jump again
The City of Oslo has asked for another NOK 200 million in funding from the state to cover the costs of the new Munch...
Munch jubilee ends on a high note
Thursday December 12 would have been Edvard Munch's 150th birthday, and it was being celebrated near the farm where the famed Norwegian artist was...
Top gallery going out of business
One of Norway's most prominent players in the art and antiques world, Kaare Berntsen, is going out of business after 83 years in Oslo....
Munch exhibit set new records
Around half-a-million people had streamed through the "Munch 150" joint exhibit at the Munch Museum and National Gallery by the time it closed Sunday...
Viking ships lose out to Munch
Two of Oslo's most traditional tourist attractions, the Viking Ship Museum and Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy, are reporting declines in their numbers of...
Norway Cup opens with a ‘Scream’
Around 30,000 young football players from all over the world are in Oslo once again for the annual Norway Cup football match that kicked...
Munch’s art wins place in the sun
It's been heady times of late for Norway's most famous artist, Edvard Munch. Long hailed abroad but seemingly ignored at home, Munch's art itself...
State helped pay for journalists’ Munch coverage
Norwegian media have been reporting about large numbers of foreign journalists arriving in Oslo to cover the weekend opening of a major new exhibit...
Majority hails new Munch Museum
More than half of Norwegians surveyed in a new public opinion poll were glad and relieved that Oslo's city government finally agreed this week...
‘Historic day for Oslo,’ not for Frp
A city government compromise that clears the way for construction of a new Munch Museum at Bjørvika in Oslo was being hailed as "historic"...
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