Universitetets aula
Ceremonial university hall lined with eleven monumental, unvarnished Edvard Munch canvases.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the University Aula in Oslo looks at Edvard Munch's great sun and its ten companions not as pictures but as physical things: canvas, oil and a decision about varnish. It follows the paintings from his open-air studio to these walls, and the century of chimney soot, cigarette smoke and swinging humidity they have lived through since. Stand facing the sun on the front wall to hear it.
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