Ekeberg with a fishing vessel. Ekeberg Ekeberg is a neighborhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. The Norway Cup soccer tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta every summer. "Sletta" means "the plain". The painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is painted from Utsikten ("the view"), a part of Ekeberg. In the area are a number of old Iron Age grave mounds and Bronze Age ritual sites. This establish the area of Ekeberg as one of the oldest inhabited places around Oslo. During the Middle Ages, the farm of Ekeberg belonged to Hovedøya Abbey. The area was later taken by the crown. From
Johan Storm Munch (evangelist) Peter Andreas Munch. The painter Edvard Munch was the son of Munch’s cousin Christian. Munch was married to Caja Falch (1830-1898) just prior to his emigration to America, where their first two children were born. Seven more were born after they returned to Norway, among them one of Norway’s first female physicians, Kristine Munch. The sociologist Peter A. Munch was one of their grandchildren. Munch’s followers built a home for the large family at Bestum, outside Christiania, where Munch died at the age of 81. Johan Storm Munch (evangelist) Johan Storm Munch (21 October 1827 – 13 August 1908) was