Emanuel Vigelands museum
Windowless barrel-vaulted mausoleum wrapped in a vast dark fresco, where every sound lingers.
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This guide to the Emanuel Vigeland Museum in Oslo's Slemdal district begins with a painter's decision in the nineteen-twenties to turn his new gallery into his own tomb. It follows what that choice did to the sound of the room, and the acoustician who came to hear it. Along the way it turns to Vita, the fresco of conception, love and death covering every wall. Best heard standing just inside the door, in the dark, before you make a sound.
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