SOUNDBITE 1 – Karin Hindsbo, Director at The National Museum (female, English, 14 sec): “Well, this process actually began back in 2002 and 2003 with the merger of five different institutions. So the overall process has been 20 years.” 

SOUNDBITE 2 – Karin Hindsbo, Director at The National Museum (female, English, 37 sec): “The new National Museum is the biggest museum in the Nordic countries and it is built to contain, preserve and display our amazing collection of visual arts, crafts, design and architecture dating back from antiquity and up until the present day. So this is a huge collection and a merger of several collections into one and for that you needed a new museum also to display this amazing collection in all its variety.” 

SOUNDBITE 3 – Karin Hindsbo, Director at The National Museum (female, English, 29 sec): “This is not the only cultural building that is opening at this moment, there are several other institutions that have opened in new buildings recently. For instance, the amazing new Munch Museum or the Deichman Public Library and it’s not so long ago that the Opera House in Oslo opened. So here we have an amazing transformation into a cultural city.”

SOUNDBITE 4 – Karin Hindsbo, Director at The National Museum (female, English, 32 sec): “What you will see and experience in the new National Museum is our collection display, which is close to 10,000 square meters, going back with sculptures from antiquity and up until contemporary installations. There will be glasses, figurines, tapestries that are a thousand year old, recent paintings. This is the broad variety we have in our collection.”

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