--- title: "Frida Kahlo Oslo 2027: Dates and Best Days" description: "Frida Kahlo is at Oslo's National Museum from 19 June to 7 November 2027, with around 400 works and objects. The best weeks and the longest evenings." event: "Frida Kahlo. Between Worlds" date: "19 June to 7 November 2027" startDate: "2027-06-19" endDate: "2027-11-07" venue: "National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet)" canonical: "https://osloexplore.com/events/frida-kahlo-oslo" --- # Frida Kahlo Oslo 2027: Dates and Best Days 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. ## Key facts - When: 19 June to 7 November - Where: Light Hall, floor 3 - Latest opening: Tuesday, Wednesday to 20:00 - General entry: NOK 220 adult, under 18 free - Audience: Art lovers and visitors to Oslo - Official source: [National Museum](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2027/frida-kahlo.-between-worlds/) Every T-bane (metro) line stops at Nationaltheatret, the museum's station. ## Around 400 works and objects, not 400 Kahlos ![The National Museum's main entrance on a paved square, with the pale Light Hall rising above grey slate walls.](https://osloexplore.com/blog/frida-kahlo-oslo/national-museum-main-entrance.webp) Image: [Helge Høifødt](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nasjonalmuseet_med_hovedinngangen.jpg), CC BY-SA 4.0, adapted The Light Hall is the pale box on top of the museum, and [Kahlo gets all 2,400 square metres of it](https://kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemelding/19124929/the-national-museum-of-norway-announces-2027-programme?publisherId=17849119). Around 400 counts [works and objects together](https://kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemelding/19117208/frida-kahlo-inntar-nasjonalmuseet-i-2027?publisherId=17849085). Her paintings and drawings share the hall with [archaeological pieces she collected, her clothes, jewellery and books](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2027/frida-kahlo.-between-worlds/), and with work by Diego Rivera and Tina Modotti. The museum promises a significant number of her paintings and drawings and gives no count. [Fondation Beyeler](https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/frida-kahlo) 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](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2027/momentous-mysticism/) is about spiritualism in 19th-century Norway and includes a spirit photograph of Mrs Ella Anker. [Lul Krag and Rosendal](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions-and-events/national-museum/exhibitions/2027/lul-krag/) hangs charcoal drawings of the west coast. If you are flying in, avoid 17 July to 3 August, when [Oslo S, the central station, is due to close](https://www.banenor.no/reise-og-trafikk/aktuelt-for-reisende/buss-for-tog/) and trains turn back before it. **Best weeks: 19 June to 16 July and 4 to 29 August.** ## Tuesday or Wednesday gives the longest evening ![Ferries at the City Hall piers and Akershus Fortress across the harbour, seen from the National Museum's roof terrace.](https://osloexplore.com/blog/frida-kahlo-oslo/view-from-roof-terrace.webp) Image: [Helge Høifødt](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pipervika_r%C3%A5dhusbryggene_og_Akershus_festning_sett_fra_takterrassen_p%C3%A5_Nasjonalmuseet.jpg), CC BY-SA 4.0, adapted 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](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/guide/the-building/the-building/502/), 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](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/visit/locations/the-national-museum/practical-information-for-your-visit-to-the-national-museum/), 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](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/tickets/entry-tickets/) sells only general entry for now, so do not buy that expecting Kahlo. For comparison, [MUNCH's Monet show](https://www.munch.no/en/buy-tickets/entranceexhibitions/?eventKey=inngang-monet-30685) 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. ## Afterwards, walk 17 minutes for birria tacos ![Birria tacos on a yellow plate with lime and a cup of broth, photographed elsewhere, not at Corral's Tacos.](https://osloexplore.com/blog/frida-kahlo-oslo/birria-tacos.webp) Image: [Itissuggested](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tacos_de_Birria_with_consom%C3%A9_and_Agua_Fresca.jpg), CC0 1.0, adapted [Corral's Tacos](/oslo/places/corrals-tacos) in Frogner is the one Mexican kitchen on our map, and it began as a birria taco truck. Closer by, [About Contrasts](/oslo/places/about-contrast), 6 minutes away, builds each cocktail on a proverb, such as "No bad weather, just bad clothes". ## Facts checked on 9 November 2026 - [National Museum 2027 programme, 3 November 2026](https://kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemelding/19124929/the-national-museum-of-norway-announces-2027-programme?publisherId=17849119) - [National Museum opening hours and prices](https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/visit/locations/the-national-museum/) - [Bane NOR rail closures 2027](https://www.banenor.no/reise-og-trafikk/aktuelt-for-reisende/buss-for-tog/) - [Oslo Pass conditions of use](https://www.visitoslo.com/activities-and-attractions/oslo-pass/conditions-of-use) - [Sunset times: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0](https://api.met.no/weatherapi/sunrise/3.0/sun?lat=59.9112&lon=10.7287&date=2027-06-22&offset=+02:00) ## 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. - **[Cocktail course](https://osloexplore.com/experiences/cocktail-course-oslo.md)** (Tasting, About 2 hours, English): A welcome drink and a short introduction from a bartender, then you mix two drinks yourself. Three drinks in total. - **[Coffee cupping at Fuglen](https://osloexplore.com/experiences/coffee-cupping-oslo.md)** (Tasting, 75 minutes, Norwegian and English): A guided smelling and tasting at Fuglen, with beans roasted in-house. No coffee knowledge is needed. Course details checked on 7 November 2026. Offers for company groups are tailored by email: https://osloexplore.com/teambuilding ## Frequently asked questions **Does the Oslo Pass cover Frida Kahlo?** 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.