New Snow is an interactive experience where we invite you to explore the archive of Edvard Munch’s drawings – by making digital drawings of your own. Make yourself comfortable in our Lab space, pick up a tablet and start doodling. Each drawing you draw reveals a similar Munch drawing. The system uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse what you drew and find a match.
The museum’s collection includes everything from the youthful drawings of Munch’s childhood years to the last drawings he made – more than 7000 in total. The drawings in the collection are extremely fragile, which means they are rarely exhibited to the public. With the New Snow project, we are exploring ways of making the hidden world of Munch’s drawings more widely accessible and engaging.
Day in, day out, Munch made drawings of the world around him, and all the strange and wonderful things he imagined. Every new drawing began with a blank white sheet of paper – as pristine and fresh as a landscape covered with new snow. His tireless pencil captured friends, enemies, strangers, models, animals, landscapes, street scenes, symbolic figures, caricatures, celebrities and much more.
We welcome you to try this first part of the New Snow project.
New Snow is developed in collaboration with technology company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and UX-designer Jakobsen frukt og grønt. The New Snow texts in the Lab are developed in collaboration with Paragone, a journal published by art history students from the University of Oslo.
AI at MUNCH
MUNCH is working with AI to explore how this technology can enhance the management, research and accessibility of our collections. AI offers the opportunity to uncover hidden connections, strengthen conservation efforts, and develop new ways to make art more relevant, accessible and engaging for visitors.
