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Nasjonalgalleriet (Oslo)

Norway's biggest collection of art is housed in this grand 19thcentury building.

It includes an impressive collection of works by the country's most famous painter, Edvard Munch, from the 1880s to 1916. Although rather rambling in its layout, the main part of the collection is housed on the second floor.

There is a strong international collection including Impressionist paintings by Manet, Monet, and Degas, Post-Impressionist works by Gauguin and Cezanne, and early 20th century paintings by Picasso and Braque. The museum also holds an important collection of Norwegian art. Among the paintings on display are some spectacular fjord and country scenes from the 19th-century National Romantic period by leading Norwegian landscape painters, notably Johan Christian Dahl.

There are also works by Realist artists such as Harriet Becker, Christian Krohg, and Erik Werenskiold, as well as sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. The Munch room contains such important works as Tbe Sick Cbild (1885) and The Scream (1893), the swirling forms and colours of which were to greatly inspire the growing Expressionist movement.

Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10.00-18.00. Thursday: 10.00-20.00. Saturday and Sunday: 10.00 17.00.
Closed Tuesday
Phone + 47 21 98 20 00
Address Kristian Augusts gate 23, Oslo
Web www.nationalmuseum.no

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