The pastel Scream
The 1893 original — the world's most famous.
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Norway's National Museum is all Nordic Europe's largest: opened (2022) in a massive stone harbourside building to gather under one roof what five museums once scattered — art, architecture, design and craft from the medieval to the contemporary. Its great Munch Hall holds his other Scream (the 1893 original pastel — the world's most famous version, distinct from the museum's oil copies) beside Madonna and The Sick Child, with treasures of Norway's golden-age painters, European Impressionists, and rare Viking wooden panels. The top-floor glass Light Hall enters free and opens Akershus and harbour views — the museum itself routed thematically, not strictly chronologically, workable as a brisk hour or a deep half-day depending on choice.
The 1893 original — the world's most famous.
Free glass overlooking castle and harbour.
Brynjulf Bulls plass 9, 0250 Oslo
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The Storting BuildingThe Storting is the seat of the Norwegian parliament, standing at one end of Kar7 minutes walk4.3Munch made four versions in different media over the years — two (1893 pastel, 1910 tempera) passed to the state and sit here at the National Museum; two (pastel and lithograph) stayed his personal estate and went to the Munch Museum at his death. So the two institutions — not merely two buildings — share one icon by dual historical right.