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You have access to the complete Ibsen edition, the database IbsenStage and the Ibsen bibliography, as well as translations in multiple languages, reviews, biographies and visual material. </p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="vrtx-more"> <span><a href="https://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/services/knowledge/">Go to The Virtual Ibsen Centre</a></span> </div> </div> <div class="vrtx-frontpage-box vrtx-header-false vrtx-more-false third-box-right grey-box" id="vrtx-main-content-5"> <div class="vrtx-box-content"> <p><img alt="" height="315" src="/is/tjenester/virtuelle-ibsensenteret/illustrasjonsbilder/boksbilde---560x315.jpg" width="560" loading="lazy"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-container row-thirds-double"> <div class="vrtx-frontpage-row row"> <div class="column-wrapper wide-narrow"> <div class="vrtx-frontpage-box third-box-left third-box-double" id="vrtx-main-content-6"> <h2><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/services/collection/">Centre for Ibsen Studies Library</a></h2> <div class="vrtx-box-content"> <p>We have a large collection of material by and about Henrik Ibsen. In the library you can find original texts, translations, journals and theoretical works, media from stage productions and film adaptations of Ibsen's works.</p> <p>The library can be visited in <a href="https://www.uio.no/english/about/getting-around/areas/blindern/bl06/" target="_blank">Henrik Wergelands hus</a>, room 213.</p> </div> <div class="vrtx-more"> <span><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/services/collection/">More about the library</a></span> </div> </div> <div class="vrtx-frontpage-box vrtx-header-false vrtx-more-false third-box-right" id="vrtx-main-content-7"> <div class="vrtx-box-content"> <p><img alt="A bookshelf filled with Ibsen publications" height="485" src="/is/bilder/ibsenbiblioteket485.jpg" width="401" loading="lazy"/></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-container row-all-colored row-first-colored row-last-colored grid-color-grey"> <div class="vrtx-frontpage-row row"> <div class="vrtx-frontpage-box grey-box" id="vrtx-main-content-8"> <h2><a href="https://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/research/">Research</a></h2> <div class="vrtx-box-content"> <p>The Centre for Ibsen Studies provides an active multidisciplinary research environment and houses ongoing international research projects, including an ERC Advanced Grant. 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