New Snow is an interactive experience where we invite you to explore the archive of Edvard Munch’s drawings – by making digital drawings of your own. Make yourself comfortable in our Lab space, pick up a tablet and start doodling. Each line you draw on the tablet reveals a similar Munch drawing. The system uses artificial intelligence to analyse what you drew and find a match.
The museum’s collection includes everything from the youthful scribbles of Munch’s childhood years to the last drawings he made in his old age – more than 7000 in total. The drawings in the collection are extremely fragile, which means they are rarely exhibited to the public. With the New Snow project, we are exploring ways of making the hidden world of Munch’s drawings more widely accessible and engaging.
Day in, day out, Munch made drawings of the world around him, and all the strange and wonderful things he saw inside his head. Every new drawing began with a blank white sheet of paper – as pristine and fresh as a landscape covered with new snow. His tireless pencil captured friends, enemies, strangers, models, animals, landscapes, street scenes, symbolic figures, caricatures, celebrities and much more.
Come and give this first public prototype of the New Snow project a try! New Snow is developed in collaboration with the Indian technology company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
