Ibsen Museum (Oslo)

The Ibsen Museum in Oslo is a museum of literature for the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

The apartment

Extensive restoration subjected and reopened on 23 May 2006 with its original furnishings - For the hundredth anniversary of the death of the playwright Ibsen was former apartment in Oslo - here he created his last plays. With financial support from donors and lenders was an authentic impression of the poet 's home, where he lived from 1895 until his death in 1906, made ​​. Furniture were recycled, floors, walls and ceilings in accordance with construction, archaeological investigations, supplemented by a number information from historical sources, reconstructed. Tablecloths, curtains and door curtains, the materials had suffered damage by the time were, according to newly woven the originals.

The apartment resolution 1914

As Suzannah Ibsen died in 1914, the apartment was dissolved and distributed the inventory. The city of Kristiania took over the study and bedroom Henrik Ibsen and deposited them in the Norwegian outdoor museum. The District Museum in Skien (today Telemark Museum ) got the library, and the Ibsen House (now the city's museums Grimstad ) received the dining room. The rest of the inventory remained in the possession of the family.

The actor Knut Wigert and the family Ibsen

In 1990, the actor Knut Wigert took the initiative and rented the apartment to make them accessible to the public. As a basis for further restoration and documentation of investigations were carried out in the most important rooms in the house. The Norwegian Folk Museum, in 1993, the management. The study was recycled, but limited resources and lack of original objects for the rest of the apartment had the consequence that only the study could be presented fully valid.

The Ibsen family contributed greatly to the result. Ambassador Tancred Ibsen introduced a large number of personal belongings of his great-grandfather as permanent loans or grants available. His cousin, the actor Joen Bille, helped for years to track down and buy back stock inventory.