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Munchs Hus

"I am sitting in the only pleasant house I have ever lived in – the house in Åsgårdstrand."

Åsgårdstrand was liberating for Edvard Munch's development as an artist. Here he found the landscape that runs through many of his world-famous paintings, as in The Dance of Life, Separation, The Voice, The Lonely Ones, and The Girls on the Bridge.

In 1889 Edvard Munch (1863-1944) spent the first of many summers at Åsgårdstrand. In 1897/98 he bought a spartan house dating from the early 1800s. The house was sold to the municipality right afther his death and became a museum just after. This is now a unique, evocative and distinctive place, the only completely preserved home of one of the world's greatest artists. Everything is kept as it was when the artist himself lived there. The surrounding landscape is largely unchanged, and Munch's motifs are easily recognizable. Here Munch the man found peace - and the painter inspiration.