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National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design is an art museum in Oslo, Norway.

About National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

The National Museum (Norwegian: Nasjonalmuseet, officially the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) is a museum in Oslo, Norway which holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects. The collection totals over 400,000 works, amongst them the first copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893. The museum is state-owned and managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.

The National Museum was established in 2003 by the merging of the Museum of Architecture, the Museum of Industrial Art, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery of Norway.

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design by the numbers

Founded
2003
Visitors / year
602,546
Collection
400,000 objects

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