The Ibsen Museums in Norway
The three Ibsen Museums have a collaboration on practical measures of co-operation.
The other two are the Henrik Ibsen Museum, in Ibsen's birthtown Skien (at the farm Venstøp): Henrik Ibsen Museum, Skien and the Ibsenmuseum in Grimstad: .
Also, in the street outside the Ibsen Museum in Oslo, there is an artwork of Ibsen quotes permanently embedded in the pavement.
Read more about this topic: Ibsen Museum (Oslo)
Famous quotes containing the words ibsen, museums and/or norway:
“In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.”
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)