A must visit while in Oslo, this new museum focuses on the prolific career of the tortured artist Edvard Munch. There are 13 floors in this new architectural addition to the city’s skyline with most displaying Munch’s work from wood cut print and sketches to massive pairings the size of busses and including perhaps his most famous work, Skirk or as we know it, “the Scream”.
The artwork is thoughtfully grouped by theme with sections dedicated to death, sadness, and natural scenes to name a few. The museum also does a good job educating the viewer as to Munch’s life and career.
How it works/things to know:
-buy tickets online for specific day/time in advance or at the box office.
-the scream is in the center of floor 4
-there are 3 versions of the scream-the painting, a pastel on cardboard and a drawing
-only one version is on display at a time in order to protect them (quite fragile) and a different one is “revealed” in the Scream exhibition every half hour.
-The drawing is the one most exhibited, however in a 2- hour period we saw drawing 2:25pm, pastel on cardboard at 2:30pm and finally after 3:30 the painting version
There’s also a bar on the top floor as well as a nice museum shop on the ground floor which is accessible without a museum ticket in case you need a scream t-shirt.




















