Munch Museum for the 50th anniversary of Munch's death. This site has also been the location of filming for an "Olsenbanden"-movie from 1984. On Sunday, 22 August 2004, two paintings by Munch, "The Scream" and "Madonna", were stolen from the Munch Museum by masked men wielding firearms. The robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned. The paintings were recovered by Oslo Police on 31 August 2006. In 2008, the City of Oslo promoted
Madonna (Munch painting) of the woman as implicitly paradoxical. According to Peter Day, it is a potentially vampiric figure. Day identifies a "dichotomy" between the haunting image of a monstrous mother and of female subjectivity and self-sufficiency. The painting in Munch Museum Oslo was investigated by British and Norwegian scientists. They were able to identify the following pigments: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, yellow ochre, charcoal black, artificial ultramarine and vermilion. On March 29, 1990 a version of "Madonna" and three other artworks were stolen from the Gallery Kunsthuset AS in Oslo. On June 22, 1990 the police located three of the artworks in