National Museum Oslo

National Gallery Oslo

The Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design ( Norwegian Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design ) in Oslo was created in 2003 as a state museum from the merging of the Norwegian Architecture Museum, the Museum of Folk Art, the National Gallery of Norway and the Norwegian National Exhibition into one museum under unified management.

management

The management of the museum cooperation has been under public criticism from the very beginning, the first director, Sune Nordgren , resigned in 2006, the following Allis Helleland in 2007.

The director has been the art historian Karin Hindsbo since 2017 , who moved from KODE Kunstmuseer og komponisthjem in Bergen to Oslo and replaced the art historian Audun Eckhoff , who was in office from 2009 to 2017.

National Gallery

The National Gallery in Oslo (Norwegian Nasjonalgalleriet ) is Norway's largest art collection and has works by the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch , but also by foreign artists such as Pablo Picasso , Vincent van Gogh , Claude Monet and Henri Matisse . The National Gallery became known worldwide in 1994 for the art theft of the painting “SKRIK” (German: The Scream ), one of Edvard Munch's main works. However, the painting reappeared damaged a little later, and the art thieves were sentenced to several years in prison.