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,
1943 University of Oslo fire university. It is a part of the original university campus in downtown Oslo (not Blindern), and was built as an annex to the already existing "Domus Media", "Domus Academica" og "Domus Bibliotheca", built between 1841 and 1851. The ceremony hall has been used for lectures, graduation ceremonies and concerts and also features valuable paintings by Edvard Munch. When Nazi Germany invaded and subsequently occupied Norway in 1940, "Universitetets Aula" was originally used for Norwegian prisoners of war. The valuable Munch paintings were stored somewhere else. After the war phase was over in Eastern Norway, the university continued mostly as usual