Room 22 - The Posters

Room 22 is about identity. It’s also about exploring the poster as a way to communicate directly with a viewer who is often moving through an urban landscape. The installation presents posters from the 1800s to today that have hung in big cities around the world.  

Mardi 8

Sound Composer: Reno Isaac

Sound Designer: Jeanne Robet

Post Production Director: Nicolas Lim

Post Production Assistant: Marlène Blondeau

Project Managers: Clothilde Lepas and Montse Cerdan 

Producer: Youenn Le Guen

 

The National Museum

Curator: Denise Hagströmer

Curator Learning: Anne Qvale

Editor: Klaus Kottmann

Project Managers: Amanda Ward and Rowena Hamilton

Multimedia Editorial Board

 

Archive

Newspaper kiosk and advertising column in Paris, 1899 – Photo: Boyer / Roger Viollet / Getty Images   
A woman hanging up a poster, Paris, early 1900s – Photo: AKG / NTB

Advertising column in Paris, 1800s – Photo: Bettmann / Getty Images

Men hanging up posters, Rue de Rivoli in Paris, 1920 – Photo: BHVP / Roger-Viollet       

Advertising column in Piperviken, Oslo, 1936 – Photo: Unknown photographer / Museum of Oslo

Man reading a newspaper by an advertising column in Copenhagen, 1946 – Photo: Douglas Miller / Keystone Features / Getty Images

Nathan's Hot Dogs, New York, 1954 – Photo: Library of Congress

Three men next to advertisement posters in London, 1955 – Photo: Popperfoto via Getty Images

Film poster in Bombay, India, 1955 – Photo: Three Lions / Getty Images 

Posters on a wagon in snowy Leningrad, 1956 – Photo: Manuel Litran / Paris Match via Getty Images    

Man hanging up posters, Hong Kong, 1961 – Photo: Mario De Biasi / Mondadori Portfolio / Mondadori via Getty Images

Large film posters in Times Square, New York, 1963 – Photo: Walter Leporati / Getty Images

Aspirin advertisement in Times Square 42nd Street, New York, 1967 – Photo: Walter Leporati / Getty Images

‘War is Over’, poster on a wall in London, 1969 – Photo: Bettmann / Getty Images

Man hanging up a poster on an advertisement column in Edinburgh, 2006 – Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Images

Intersection in Tokyo, Japan – Photo: Filadendron / Getty Images

Two boys next to a wall of posters in Tokyo, 2020 – Photo: SOPA Images Limited / Alamy Stock Photo / NTB      

Poster for Oslo Philharmonic at a tram stop, 2021 – Photo: Erlend Tangen Istad / Max Pinckers 

Street Art poster in Oslo – Photo: Einar Aslaksen / All Tomorrow’s