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The National Museum has bad weather. Such bad weather that they ask their colleagues to be silent and not participate in the public debate.
In general, we do not get to know the intricate internal power games between state institutions.
But this time, fortunately, the director of the Munch Museum, Stein Olav Henrichsen, delivered an exemplary clear speech to NRK:
– One of my colleagues was going to appear in Dagsnytt 18, but the National Museum asked him to resign. It was completely out of place, completely unheard of. It is important to clearly state that this is not how you want it.
The background is that the National Museum is completely closed for almost three years in relation to a new building, where the opening has just been postponed again, until “sometime during 2022.”
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By comparison, the Munch Museum has worked hard to keep it as open as possible during its new construction period, and precisely that difference seemed naturally interesting to the discussion editors at Dagsnytt 18.
But just before Wednesday’s broadcast, the Munch Museum received a request from the National Museum, asking them to withdraw from the debate.
According to NRK, the reason was that the National Museum was in a press race like no other, and that they themselves wanted a lot of time in the studio to respond to criticism. Desire made the director of the Munch Museum almost climb to the roof:
– All attempts to limit a public debate on cultural issues, it is necessary to react quite clearly, tells NRK. In hindsight, the National Museum has apologized for the investigation.
– Especially because it has been perceived as an attempt at censorship by the Munch Museum. This is not how it should be, not really, as one senior communications consultant puts it.
Of course not. Perhaps just a wish for the greatest silence possible, so that the National Museum can continue to spend its 881 million in annual operating grants completely in peace, and completely without anyone thinking about it.
And note that as commentator Frank Rossavik clarified in Aftenposten earlier this week, this does not apply to the construction costs associated with the new building being erected on the old Vestbanet site.
No, these few billion, which the director of the National Museum, Karin Hindsbo, disposes each year, is applied exclusively drift – and it’s almost as much as the French state has in annual spending on the Louvre.
So it is not surprising that the representative of the Storting, Himanshu Gulati (Frp), believes that “something is wrong here”, and will ask the Minister of Culture for an account of where the money is really going.
Something is probably easy to answer. We understand well that it costs large sums just to care for Norwegian national treasures such as “Brudeferden i Hardanger”, “Skrik” and the nearly 100,000 other works in the museum’s possession.
But there must be something wrong with the financing method when it is not Some incentives for activity there that do not Some The works are provided to third parties during the construction period, which do not Some Significant works are shown to the public in three years.
And indeed it is possible to show a touch of restraint:
A quick search of the pages of the National Museum shows that the 881 million that operate annually, among other things, go to a communication department of up to nine (9) people.
That is much more than most ministries have.
So of course it’s rude to suggest that the communication department doesn’t have much to do now that the museum is closed. It is also wrong. They are completely concerned with preventing other museums from coming up for debate at Dagsnytt 18.
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