The Scream
Three versions never shown together.
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The Munch Museum is the world's largest home of The Scream: a leaning glass tower (2021) on Bjørvika harbour holding Edvard Munch's complete legacy — 28,000 works he willed to his home city (paintings, drawings, prints) — the largest single-artist collection in one museum on earth. Three versions of The Scream (oil, pastel, lithograph) are never all shown at once — rotated for light protection, not scarcity — and a route across thirteen floors traces Munch from youthful realism through his raw expressionism (anxiety, jealousy, illness, death) to a calmer late self. The top floor is a restaurant and panoramic terrace over city and fjord — the building itself architecturally contentious (critics dubbed it the Box) but has given Oslo a modern landmark no Opera House bridge crosser misses.
Three versions never shown together.
City and fjord from the top floor.
Edvard Munchs Plass 1, 0194 Oslo
The Oslo Opera HouseOslo's Opera House is the only building on earth designed to be walked on top of2 minutes walk4.6
Christian Frederiks plass and the Oslo TigerThe square directly in front of Oslo Central Station carries the sculpture every7 minutes walk4.4
ØstbanehallenØstbanehallen is the original building of Oslo's East Station, opened in 1854 fo7 minutes walk4.0
The Old Fire StationA late nineteenth-century fire station building in the Gamlebyen district east o10 minutes walk4.6
The Medieval Ruins of OsloFew visitors to Oslo know that the present city is not on its original site. Med10 minutes walk4.2The National Gallery's version was stolen by daylight ladder (1994), the thieves leaving a card thanking the museum for its poor security — recovered months later. Another was armed-robbed from the Munch Museum itself (2004) in broad daylight — recovered 2006, damaged, and restored. Both tales are now part of the painting's legend as much as its colours.