Frida Kahlo fills the Light Hall at Oslo's National Museum from 19 June to 7 November 2027, her first show in Norway since 1997 and, the museum says, one of the largest ever in Europe. No ticket is on sale yet. Go by 29 August, on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening.
The museum promises a significant number of her paintings and drawings and gives no count. Fondation Beyeler says around 50 paintings is about a third of all she painted, so she painted roughly 150, and most of what is here will be something else.
The show is about her politics and her Mexico as much as her face, so give the clothes and books as long as the paintings.
Go by 29 August for three shows
Until 29 August two other shows share the building. Momentous Mysticism is about spiritualism in 19th-century Norway and includes a spirit photograph of Mrs Ella Anker. Lul Krag and Rosendal hangs charcoal drawings of the west coast.
The museum stays open three hours later on Tuesdays and Wednesdays than from Thursday to Sunday. Half a minute on each of the works and objects adds up to more than three hours, so be through the door by 16:00 midweek and 13:00 from Thursday to Sunday.
The hall's walls are thin slices of marble between glass, and the museum says the room changes with the season and the hour. Leave at closing on Tuesday 22 June and the sun does not set until 22:44. By early September the sun is setting as you reach the door.
Tuesday 6 July is a late evening and would have been her 120th birthday. No event is announced, so raise a glass of your own afterwards.
Food and drink stay out of the exhibitions, so take your break on the roof terrace, which looks across the harbour to Akershus Fortress.
Regular hours: from 10:00, to 20:00 on Tuesday and Wednesday and to 17:00 from Thursday to Sunday. Closed Monday. Brynjulf Bulls plass 3.
Book the trip now, the ticket later
The museum has not published a price for this exhibition, and the ticket page sells only general entry for now, so do not buy that expecting Kahlo.
For comparison, MUNCH's Monet show went on sale more than three months before it opens, at NOK 220, MUNCH's usual adult price. So book flights and a hotel now, and budget the same for the museum, with room for a surcharge.
The National Museum is on the pass's free entry list, but museums may add a surcharge for special exhibitions, and it is not reimbursed. An adult 24-hour pass is NOK 580, more than entry here and at MUNCH plus two city rides.
Is the museum open on Mondays in summer?
Not on its regular hours. It opened every day from June to August 2026 and has not said whether it will do the same in 2027.
Which paintings will be in the show?
No list of works is out. The only painting the museum has named is Self-Portrait with Monkeys, and it has not said that picture will hang in Oslo.
Group activities in Oslo
If you are hosting a team or clients around the Frida Kahlo exhibition, you can request these from us. They are separate from the event and do not include event tickets.
