As she neared the end of her six year contract as Director of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Karin Hindsbo was in reflective mood. Perhaps now was the time to move away from museums; after all, the Danish-born art historian had just completed the mammoth task of bringing together four separate Norwegian institutions, with a combined collection of 400,000 objects, into one newly constructed mega-museum with a staggering budget of £400m. It was a lot.
The only thing that could make her change her mind, she joked to her friends and family, would be if Tate Modern came calling.
