Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum)
Munch's 1893 Scream — the first copy ever made — is here, not in a vault.
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Five formerly separate state collections (fine art, contemporary art, architecture, industrial art, decorative arts and design) merged in 2003 and finally united under one roof in 2022. The result is Norway's entire public collection — over 400,000 works — in a single Kleihues + Schuwerk-designed building on the old Oslo West Station site at Aker Brygge.
What to look for
- Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893): the first version, not a print
- The Forum Artis building itself, designed by German firm Kleihues + Schuwerk and opened 2022 on the Vestbanen waterfront
- Design and decorative arts galleries — formerly their own museum, now folded into the main collection
At Vestbanehallen, Aker Brygge, central Oslo. The building opened in 2022 and consolidates what were previously five separate museum visits.
Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum) is one of 27 sights worth the detour in Oslo, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Oslo pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Oslo
- Oslo Opera HouseThe roof is a public plaza — walk straight up the white marble slope and look out over the Oslofjord.
- Munch Museum (MUNCH)Nearly 28,000 works by one artist — Munch left everything to Oslo, and Oslo built a whole museum around it.
- Akershus FortressSeven centuries of sieges, and it never fell once.
- Unity ArenaNorway's largest indoor venue — 25,000 people under one fixed roof, from handball finals to headline concerts.
- Royal PalaceParliament cut its funding mid-build — twice — and it still became Norway's royal seat.
- Oslo CathedralTwo royal weddings, two centuries of state ceremony — Oslo's main church has been at Stortorvet since 1697 and hasn't stopped working since.