MUNCHS LARGEST PAINTINGS ARE LIFTED THROUGH THE MUSEUM WALL

Some of the paintings in MUNCH’s collection are so enormous that you cannot get them in or out of the museum in the normal way. For these works, which are up to 50 square meters in size, one has simply had to open a slot in the wall on the sixth floor of the new museum. The works are transported in specially made crates with a trailer and out on a barge, before being lifted by crane into the opening on the museum’s sea side, more than 26 meters above ground level. Then the 60 cm wide and 7.1 metres-high slot is being closed again – for good. This film is made by MUNCH in collaboration with NRK © Munchmuseet