Delayed National Museum of Norway opens – ArtReview
The institution on the Oslo waterfront will chronologically display 6,500 works, from antiquities to contemporary art, design and architecture, across 86 rooms
After much delay the new National Museum of Norway is to open this week. The institution on the Oslo waterfront will chronologically display 6,500 works, from antiquities to contemporary art, design and architecture, across 86 rooms. Among them is Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
Inaugurating the 2,400 sq metre Light Hall, which is reserved for temporary exhibitions, is a show of 147 Norway-based artists and collective titled I Call It Art. The glass box space, which rises above the grey concrete main bulk of the building, is lit by 9,000 energy-efficient, adjustable LED lights, making something of a new landmark in the city.