Munch and modern media

Did you know that your cellphone could be very useful during a visit to the Munch Museum? Logg on our free WiFi called “Munch-museet” and download our Munch Audio Guide before you enter the exhibition. We really appreciate if you send a message on Twitter to @themunchmuseum, or simply use the hashtag #munchmuseet by sharing experiences from your visit. Maybe you wish to share an image of your own rubbing, made at home or hanging on the museum walls? Feel free to share with us through Twitter or Facebook. When the Munch Museum open up for moderne media, it is quite in Edvard Munch’s spirit, being an innovative and modern artist. During last year’s exhibition eMunch.no – Text and Image, we even discovered a handwritten note by Edvard Munch, in which he imagines how a cellphone would have made life much easier to the busy artist, preoccupied not only in finishing his art works, but also managing international exhibitions, transport and logistics. Translations of this note is ongoing but will be updated at eMunch.no

Welcome to the Munch Museum’s Blog

We are happy to introduce a new Museum Blog from the Munch Museum.

The Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, preserves not just the artist’s paintings, prints and drawings, but Edvard Munch’s private library, his letters, postcards, diaries and sketchbooks – all in all immense artistic material it could take a lifetime to get to the depth of. We invite you to explore some of it through regular insights in this blog.

Munchblog intends to provide not just a glimpse behind the scene, but a place to tell the stories that did not make it to the exhibition. We have strong belief in the outreach of video, and through this medium we will invite our museum professionals to share inside material within research, conservation, curation, development and publications. Munchblog will provide exclusives, behind the scenes, rare and fun stuff about Edvard Munch and his art both for youngsters and scholars.

Enjoy and share with your friends and colleagues.