Rasmus Meyer, Kode
Art museum of Norwegian golden-age painting, major Munch works and historic painted interiors.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Rasmus Meyer collection at Kode in Bergen follows a flour-mill owner and the painter Edvard Munch through the decade after nineteen oh-six. It touches on the year the two men first met, a self-portrait made in a clinic, and a letter between collector and artist. Best heard in the Munch rooms, then again in the painted eighteenth-century interior.
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