ABSTRACT
This chapter provides insights from the process of running a crowdsourced manuscript project in a middle-sized, one-artist museum: the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. This museum is devoted to Edvard Munch, the prominent Norwegian expressionist artist and painter of the famous The Scream. The eMunch.no was where most of the crowd met Munch’s related documents for the first time; it was the gate to the wiki workplace in which crowdsourcing took place. The letters’ cultural importance prompted the launching of the ‘Edvard Munch’s Writings’ project. As expressed by the Munch Museum’s director and chief curator Ingebjorg Ydstie, ‘Munch’s letters, notes, journals and a number of other documents have always been a key wellspring for the comprehension of his art’. In 2012, in the initial stage of the third phase, the fragile and vulnerable manuscripts of letters to Munch were handled carefully by research assistants.
