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AD✏️ What if your doodle had a Munch twin? 👀
In the exhibition Connect the Lines, you can create your own digital drawing and discover which of Edvard Munch’s approximately 7,000 drawings matches yours.
From quick sketches to unexpected masterpieces, discover a whole new side of Munch’s artistic world. Many of these drawings are too fragile to be displayed regularly, but now you can explore them in a fun and interactive way.
🎨 Draw. Discover. Connect.

👀 Your Munch match is waiting! Come find yours before 29 November.
@munchmuseum
📍 Connect the Lines | 10th floor at MUNCH
#MUNCHMuseum #ConnectTheLines #EdvardMunch #OsloArt #VisitOslo taken in Oslo, Norway by @munchmuseum

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A century after Claude Monet’s death, we’re looking ahead to the most extensive presentation of his art in Norway, opening at MUNCH in February 2027.

🪷 Monet – Wild and Tamed brings together over 50 works spanning the final four decades of Monet’s career. At its heart are his iconic water lilies, alongside some of his boldest and most experimental paintings, created even as his eyesight deteriorated.

Presented in collaboration with @museemarmottanmonet_ in Paris, the exhibition also includes major loans from @museeorsay, @nationalgallery in London and @ngadc in Washington.

🗓️ Save the date! Monet – Wild and Tamed opens at MUNCH on 19 February 2027
🔗 Read more and pre-book your tickets at munch.no

The exhibition is generously supported by @bnpparibas and @sparebankstiftelsendnb.

Works & photographs featured:
1: La Barque / The Boat, 1887. Oil on canvas, 146 x 133 cm (© Musée Marmottan Monet. Michel Monet bequest, 1966. Inv. 5082)
2: Agence Meurisse, 1926 (© Bibliothèque nationale de France)
3: Kolsåstoppen, 1895. Oil on canvas, 64,5 x 100,5 cm (© Nasjonalmuseet)
4: Nymphéas / Water Lilies, 1903. Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm (© Musée Marmottan Monet. Michel Monet bequest, 1966. Inv. 5163)
5: Agence Meurisse, 1926 (© Bibliothèque nationale de France)
6: Nymphéas / Water Lilies, ca. 1914–1917. Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm (© Musée Marmottan Monet. Michel Monet bequest, 1966. Inv. 5115)

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #ClaudeMonet #ArtNews by @munchmuseum

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Grab your blazer and tie – it’s International Suit Up Day! 👔

If there’s one thing Edvard Munch appreciated, it was a good suit. From sharp jackets and waistcoats to neatly tied neckties, his paintings feature plenty of fashionable figures.

🪡 More than a century later, the suit is still going strong, although the dress code has become a little less strict about who’s wearing it.

To mark the occasion, we’ve gathered some of the best dressed figures from Munch’s paintings, including the artist himself, alongside a visitor who looks right at home among them: by.thiv 🤳

Works featured:
1 & 2: Thorvald Løchen, 1917 / Daniel Jacobson, 1908–1909
3: Selvportrett med hatt og frakk / Self-Portrait in Hat and Coat, 1913–1915
4: Sittende på koffert / Seated on a Suitcase, 1913–1915
5: Jacob Bratland, 1892
6: Thorvald Løchen, 1917
7: Rolf Stenersen, 1925–1926

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #EdvardMunch #InternationalSuitUpDay taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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"Moving Perspective" – a performing arts piece by Quick Style, performed among Edvard Munch’s paintings in Monumental at MUNCH.

The film will be screened every evening from 14–18 October, between 18:00 and 21:00. Free entry for all.

Created in collaboration with @thequickstyle and @collectiveoslo.

📍 Where: Amfi at MUNCH, Oslo
🗓️ Save the date: the full film will be released on YouTube on 19 October

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #QuickStyle #EdvardMunch taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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♥️ From darkness to light. Today, on World Mental Health Day, we reflect on the courage it takes to seek help, the importance of caring for one another, and the possibility of finding hope in difficult times.⁠
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Throughout his life, Edvard Munch experienced profound loss and emotional struggles. These experiences shaped his art, where love, loneliness, anxiety and grief became recurring themes.⁠
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In 1908, following years of overwork and heavy drinking, Munch experienced a mental health crisis and sought treatment in Copenhagen. This marked a turning point in his life and art. Returning to Norway, he began creating vibrant, life-affirming works, including his monumental paintings for the University of Oslo’s Aula.⁠
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🎨 Munch’s art reminds us that pain and hope, vulnerability and strength can exist side by side. His paintings continue to give expression to emotions we all experience.⁠
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📍 Discover these works in Monumental, on the 6th floor at MUNCH.⁠
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🌱 This World Mental Health Day, let’s remember that no one should have to face difficult times alone. Reaching out and asking for help can make a difference.⁠
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Need someone to talk to? Free and anonymous support is available in Norway:⁠
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📞 Adults: 116 123⁠
📞 Children and young people: 116 111⁠
🌐 helsenorge.no/psykisk-helse⁠
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#WorldMentalHealthDay #VerdensdagenForPsykiskHelse #EdvardMunch #MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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From MUNCH Oslo, to Hamburger Kunsthalle, and now Kunsthaus Zürich. 🇳🇴🇩🇪🇨🇭

A rare encounter between two artists continues its journey. Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch: Flow of Paint = Flow of Life brings the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) and Edvard Munch (1863–1944) together in a landmark exhibition.

🖼️ Presented side by side, their works reveal fascinating parallels between their art and lives. Both Lassnig and Munch turned to colour as a way of expressing their inner worlds, exploring everything from grief, loneliness and fear to love, joy and desire.

Separated by generations, the two artists never met, yet their works speak to each other in unexpected ways.

Experience Munch from a new perspective, in dialogue with Lassnig.
📍 Kunsthaus Zürich 📅 On view until 21 February 2027

#MUNCHmuseum #EdvardMunch #MariaLassnig #kunsthauszürich #artexhibition taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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There’s a lot happening at MUNCH this autumn 🍂 Swipe through to discover what’s coming up, from new exhibitions and performances to concerts, workshops for the whole family and more.

Whether you’re here for the art or a night out, there’s plenty to add to your calendar this season.

🔗 See the full programme at munch.no
📣 MUNCH members get free entry for themselves and a +1, plus 20% off events throughout the programme

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #thingstodoinOslo

Last chance alert! Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory closes 11 October.

Don’t miss out on seeing the 12 paintings Munch created for Oslo’s iconic Freia chocolate factory up close – brought together for the first time in a Norwegian museum 🍫

📍 9th floor at MUNCH
🗓️ On display until 11 October

Movement, music and ritual come together in FRANK, a performance by choreographer @cherishmenzo exploring the monstrous through dance, sound, light and text.

Featuring dancers @mulunesh_t, @malickcss and @ogbitse, FRANK has its Norwegian premiere at MUNCH this autumn.

In collaboration with @codadancefest.

🗓️ 8 + 9 October
🕗 20:00
📸 @basdebrouwer

Join us in celebrating Dáiddadállu, recipient of the 2026 MUNCH Award, honouring artistic freedom of expression.

The ceremony will feature music, performances and presentations by Anja Saiva Bongo Bjørnstad, Anitta Suikkari, Siri Broch Johansen, Bernt Mikkel Haglund, Susanne Hætta, Máret Ánne Sara and Elle Márjá Eira.

Featured work:
Goavve-Geabbil by @maretannesara, exhibited at Tate Modern from October 2025 to April 2026.

🗓️ 23 October
🕗 18:00
📸 @cjutsi @daiddadallu

From jazz and experimental soundscapes to something entirely different: this is the music programme at MUNCH this autumn.

Experience @whykai.no and @danielherskedal as part of Jazz at MUNCH, a collaboration with @oslojazz, alongside rap collective @gjenfodt_ and instrumental trio @bitchinbajas.

🔎 Read more about each concert at munch.no
📸 Illustration by @helhveem and @halvor.hm

Explore a side of Edvard Munch you rarely get to see. Connect the Lines brings you closer to around 7,000 drawings from the MUNCH collection – many too fragile to be regularly displayed.

✏️ Crea taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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Today we’re celebrating Katharina Grosse, who turns 65 just days after the opening of her new exhibition, Black Bed, at MUNCH in Oslo, Norway.

Known for her bold approach to painting, @katharina_grosse transforms buildings, interiors, landscapes and everything in between.

Inspired by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch since her student days, Grosse connects to the emotional and psychological themes of life and death in Munch’s work and brings alive their shared preoccupations with colour, light, and the threshold dividing internal and external perception. At its heart is Black Bed, a new installation that reimagines her seminal work Das Bett (2004) and introduces black paint into her work for the first time.

📍 Katharina Grosse – Black Bed, 3rd floor at MUNCH
🗓️ On display until 3 January 2027
📸 1, 3 & 6: Photographs by @ivarkvaal

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #KatharinaGrosse taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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⏰ The clock is ticking on Munch’s sweetest exhibition.⁠
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On 11 October, we close the doors to an exhibition that brings together art, chocolate and social history.⁠
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In 1922, Edvard Munch’s large-scale paintings for the Freia chocolate factory became the first decorative artworks commissioned for a factory, and the first created for a women’s canteen.⁠
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Temporarily relocated from Freia’s headquarters to MUNCH, the works can be experienced up close alongside Munch’s preparatory sketches, archival material and related works exploring his fascination with workers, women and children.⁠
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But there’s more to the story than chocolate. 🍫 The exhibition connects Munch’s art with the history of labour, women’s emancipation and the cocoa industry, offering a glimpse into a society undergoing profound change.⁠
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👀 Haven’t seen it yet? Now’s your chance.⁠
📍 Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory⁠,
9th floor at MUNCH⁠
Last day: 11 October⁠
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#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #EdvardMunch #Freia #ArtExhibition⁠
⁠ taken in Norway by @munchmuseum

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Still reminiscing about Late Night at MUNCH 🎉

More than 4,000 people joined us on Friday as we celebrated the opening of Katharina Grosse – Black Bed with a night of art, music, dance and performances throughout the museum.

Thank you to everyone who came and filled MUNCH with energy, and to @thequickstyle, @kosoclub, @haxtho & @collectiveoslo for helping make the evening so special.

Here are some moments from the night 📸

📅 Next Late Night at MUNCH: 5 February 2027, celebrating the opening of girl in red & Edvard Munch: Norwegian Summer.
📷 1: @ignatwiig 2–10: @stillchai

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #LateNight taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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4,000+ people joined us for the opening of Katharina Grosse – Black Bed last night, and it was nothing short of extraordinary.

Thank you for making Late Night at MUNCH one of the highlights of the year, and an extra thank you to our collaborators for making the evening so special: @thequickstyle @kosoclub @haxtho @collectiveoslo 🤝

Save the date: Late Night returns on 5 February 2027 for the opening of girl in red & Edvard Munch: Norwegian Summer.

Until then, come explore our wide range of exhibitions spread across 13 floors.

📍 Black Bed, featuring Grosse’s boundary-defying use of colour, is now officially open at MUNCH. On display until 3 January 2027.

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #KatharinaGrosse #EdvardMunch #LateNight taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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Colour breaks free from the canvas: Katharina Grosse – Black Bed opens tonight at MUNCH!

For @katharina_grosse, paint is not confined to traditional formats. Colour flows across walls, objects and architecture, dissolving boundaries and transforming entire environments into fields of painting.

At the heart of the exhibition is Black Bed, a new installation reimagining Grosse’s seminal work Das Bett (2004), in which she covered her Düsseldorf bedroom – including its furniture, clothes and belongings – in paint, transforming and ultimately destroying the space and its contents.

For Black Bed, Grosse turns to black paint for the first time, connecting the exhibition to the emotional and psychological themes of life and death in Edvard Munch’s art.

📍 Explore Katharina Grosse – Black Bed on the 3rd floor at MUNCH.
🗓️ Open until 3 January 2027.

#MUNCH #MUNCHmuseum #KatharinaGrosse #EdvardMunch taken in MUNCH by @munchmuseum

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