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Join us for a unique journey through the art of Edvard Munch. Experience famous motifs such as The Scream and Madonna, as well as unknown major works, and make unexpected insights into Munch’s diverse artistic career.
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Edvard Munch: Summer Night. The Voice. A woman in a light coloured dress stands alone in a dark, bluish forest surrounded by long, slender tree trunks. Her head is slightly raised and she holds her arms together behind her back. In the lighter background can be seen a beach and several rowing boats at sea. The moon’s elongated reflection in the water is like a yellow exclamation mark.

Collection exhibition

Floor 4 // Partially closed 4 –15 Dec for maintenance
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Get closer to Edvard Munch's art with engaged voices from around the world.

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This exhibition invites you to explore the world of Edvard Munch —his ideas, processes, and the profoundly human topics that occupied him and that still affect us today. Through a wide selection from the museum’s collection, you can experience the richness of Munch’s artistic career and his unrelenting drive to experiment and innovate. The exhibition provides the opportunity to engage with themes and motifs that Munch explored his whole life in the form of paintings, graphics, drawing, photography, and sculpture—the tales of anxiety, death, love, and loneliness, which we all have in common.

Munch never tired of exploring the possibilities in art. In the same way, we would like to invite the public to discover and rediscover Munch in a completely new setting by the Oslo fjord. Visit MUNCH and get to know one of Modernism's most significant artists in new ways—or for the first time. 

Information to our visitors: From 4 to 15 December parts of this exhibition will be closed for necessary maintenance. Read more about what will be unavailable in this period. 

Key works

At MUNCH you will find three versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream – a painting, a drawing and a print. One of these is always on display, while the other two rest in the dark.
A naked woman shown from the hips up stands or lies against a meandering background. She has one arm raised behind her head and the other resting behind her hips. Her eyes are closed and her face is framed by long, black hair. Behind her head she has a red circle that could be a hat or a halo.
A printed portrait of a young girl in profile, shown from the shoulders up, drawn with many fine lines. Her pale face almost disappears into the pillow on which she rests. The eyes are half closed. The hair and upper body are rust red against the greyish-white background of the pillow.
A man buries his head in a woman’s lap. She embraces him, placing her mouth on the back of his neck. Her blood-red hair is draped around the man’s body. The room around them is dark.
A dark painting of a girl. She is naked and sitting on a bed, her arms crossed over her thighs. Her shadow falls menacingly on the wall behind her. Her facial expression is difficult to interpret.
A sinuous, ghostly figure with empty eyes and an open mouth holds his hands over his ears. He stands facing us on a road with flamelike, billowing clouds in the background. Behind him, two men stroll away into the landscape.
A black and white print showing a self-portrait by Edvard Munch. Only his head and left arm are visible. Otherwise, the image is black, as if the pale head is floating in the dark. Oddly enough, the arm and hand are depicted as bone.
Edvard Munch: Summer Night. The Voice. A woman in a light coloured dress stands alone in a dark, bluish forest surrounded by long, slender tree trunks. Her head is slightly raised and she holds her arms together behind her back. In the lighter background can be seen a beach and several rowing boats at sea. The moon’s elongated reflection in the water is like a yellow exclamation mark.
An elegantly dressed woman sits at a table set for a celebratory meal. Around her are several men in dark suits with partially blurred facial expressions. The men closest to the woman lean towards her, and one of them appears to be holding her hand. The woman stares straight ahead with an unfathomable gaze.
A black and white photograph of Edvard Munch with his face in profile. He wears a suit jacket and a dark hat that casts a shadow over his closed eyes.
At MUNCH you will find three versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream – a painting, a drawing and a print. One of these is always on display, while the other two rest in the dark. Photo: Munchmuseet

From the exhibition

At MUNCH you will find three versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream – a painting, a drawing and a print. One of these is always on display, while the other two rest in the dark. This is the painting, or tempera as we normally say. Photo: Munchmuseet
Photo: Einar Aslaksen © Munchmuseet

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