The Research Library

The museum's library is closed for visitors from July 1st and until we open the new museum in Bjørvika.

Our library is a research library that manages the collection, including all documentation and accrued knowledge about Edvard Munch, and makes it available for in-house as well as external research.

The library's collections consist of:

Literature pertaining to Edvard Munch: Books, dissertations, articles and exhibition catalogues
Edvard Munch's private library
Literature pertaining to visual art ca. 1850–1950, roughly 30 000 volumes
Transcriptions of Munch's correspondence, journals and notes
Newspaper clippings that cover Edvard Munch's lifetime
A extensive collection of documentary photographs: from Munch's life, his portraits and exhibitions

Search the library's database here