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Henrik Ibsen's Oslo apartment reopens as museum on 100th anniversary of his death

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20060523
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AP Worldstream
05-23-2006
Dateline: OSLO, Norway
The Oslo apartment where Henrik Ibsen died 100 years ago reopened Tuesday as a museum showing the life and work of one of the world's most influential playwrights.

The apartment, at No. 1 Arbins Gate, where Ibsen spent the last 11 years of his life, has been furnished with Ibsen's possessions, including his books, as it was when he lived there.

It was fully restored in 2005 and early 2006 for about 23 million kroner (US$3.8 million, euro2.9 million). Queen Sonja formally reopened it Tuesday as part of the Ibsen Museum.

Ibsen wrote his two last ...

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