Edvard Munch only version not held by a Norwegian museum. The 1893 version was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and recovered. The 1910 painting was stolen in 2004 from The Munch Museum in Oslo, but recovered in 2006 with limited damage. "The Scream" is Munch's most famous work, and one of the most recognizable paintings in all art. It has been widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man. Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, it reduces the agonized figure to a garbed skull in the
Munch Museum In May 2013, the Oslo City Council finally took the decision to revive the project, and move the museum to its new site on the waterfront, next to the Oslo Opera House. Construction started during September 2015, with the new museum expected to be completed during 2019 and scheduled to open to the public by 2020. Munch Museum Munch Museum () is an art museum in Oslo, Norway dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Munch Museum is situated at Tøyen in the Oslo borough of Gamle Oslo. Construction of the museum was financed from