After Trondheim we headed back to Oslo with the plan to spend 2 nights and one more day there before heading home.
We had seen a lot of what we wanted in Oslo in the first few days of the trip, but one thing left on the agenda was the Munch Museum—one of, if not the, largest museums dedicated to a single artist. Don’t know who Edvard Munch was? I think this will be a clue:
Like most people this was the only work we were familiar with, but his depth and range was really amazing—and very dark at times. He made a number of versions of The Scream, and this museum has eight, three of which are on a rotating display in order to preserve them from light exposure. There is a room with three covered spaces—every 30 minutes one of the them opens. The lithograph is shown the most as it is exposed between showings of the others. The museum is big enough that we were there long enough to see all three; the lithograph, one of pastels and tempera paint on cardboard, and a third that is crayon on cardboard.
At the end of a long day of viewing art, you can end up at the Sky Bar for a reward—an amazing view of Oslo!
Afterward, we met Tim and Nan for an early dinner of fish stew at SALT before we parted ways and headed back to our respective hotels to prepare for an early morning and a long day of travel.
We arrived home around 11 pm on Wednesday night to find 2 very happy dogs greeting 2 very tired (we were up for 27 hours) people glad to be back.
We want to give a shout out to our house/dogsitter, Chloe. She had quite the time of it—the first week Papalote ended up at the vet with a broken nail, and then a few days before we come home, he was sprayed by a skunk. She did an amazing job of getting him cleaned up and the smell out of the house! If you ever need her services, let us know…
We’ll do a final post in the next few days to share some random observations, but for now we are recovering from jet lag and catching up on things at home.
