Edvard Munch paintings, including "The Scream", have universal appeal in addition to their highly personal meaning. Munch's works are now represented in numerous major museums and galleries in Norway and abroad. His cabin, "the Happy House", was given to the municipality of Åsgårdstrand in 1944; it serves as a small Munch Museum. The inventory has been maintained exactly as he left it. One version of "The Scream" was stolen from the National Gallery in 1994. In 2004, another version of "The Scream", along with one of "Madonna", was stolen from the Munch Museum in a daring daylight robbery. All were eventually recovered,
Peter A. Munch the University of North Dakota, and Southern Illinois University. Peter Munch was the scion of two well-known Norwegian families. He was the second cousin of the painter Edvard Munch (1868-1944) and the first cousin thrice removed of his own namesake, the historian Peter Andreas Munch (1810-1863). His great-grandfather was the poet and bishop Johan Storm Munch 1778-1832), whose son, Munch's grandfather, Johan Storm Munch (evangelist) (1827-1898) served as missionary to the United States and was the subject of Munch's book, "The Strange American Way." Peter Munch's aunt was the feminist and early female surgeon Kristine Munch and his great-uncle the