National Museum of Norway

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National Museum

Nye Nasjonalmuseet in Vika, Oslo, Norway
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Established	28 April 2003
Location	Vestbanehallen, Oslo
Coordinates	59°55′4.652″N 10°44′25.285″E / 59.91795889°N 10.74035694°E / 59.91795889; 10.74035694
Type	State-owned museum of art, architecture, and design
Website	nasjonalmuseet.no

The National Museum (Norwegian: Nasjonalmuseet, officially the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design^[a]) is a museum in Oslo, Norway which holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects.^[1] The collection totals over 400,000 works, amongst them the first copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893.^[2] The museum is state-owned and managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.^[3]

The National Museum was established in 2003 by the merging of the Museum of Architecture, The Museum of Industrial Art, The Museum of contemporary Art, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery of Norway.^[4] In 2022, the museum opened its new building at Vestbanehallen at the centre of Oslo, housing the entirety of the collections from these previous museums.^[2]

The current director of the museum is Karen Hindsbo.^{[4][needs update]}

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