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
Oslo is the largest institution for higher education in Norway with 27,400 students and 7,028 employees in total. Oslo has a large and varied number of , which include several buildings containing artwork from Edvard Munch and various other international artists but also several Norwegian artists. Several world-famous writers have either lived or been born in Oslo. Examples are Knut Hamsun and Henrik Ibsen. The government has recently invested large amounts of money in cultural installations, facilities, buildings and festivals in the City of Oslo. Bygdøy, outside the city centre is the centre for history and the Norwegian Vikings' history. The