Edvard Munch government. Munch was 76 years old. With nearly an entire collection of his art in the second floor of his house, Munch lived in fear of a Nazi confiscation. Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had been returned to Norway through purchase by collectors (the other eleven were never recovered), including "The Scream" and "The Sick Child", and they too were hidden from the Nazis. Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. His Nazi-orchestrated funeral suggested to Norwegians that he was a Nazi sympathizer,
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