The Munch Museum in Oslo will have a new, futuristic headquarters

Oslo - The museum of the famous Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch, from whose old building in the Norwegian capital Oslo two of the artist's most famous works were stolen in 2004, will have a new location. It will be situated right next to the hyper-modern building of the new Opera. The competition for the contract was won by the studio of Spanish architect Juan Herreros with its futuristic design.
    Painter Munch (1863-1944) dedicated most of his paintings to the capital of Norway, which opened his first museum in the Töyen district in 1963. The exhibition spaces, with an average attendance of 100,000 visitors annually, had long been considered inadequate.
    In August 2004, several masked gunmen also carried away the world-famous paintings The Scream and Madonna from the museum in front of visitors. Both works were discovered significantly damaged two years later. The museum was closed for a year due to enhanced security measures.
    The new location of the Munch Museum, named Lambda, is scheduled to be completed in 2013 according to plans, and its site has been selected in what is currently the most attractive architectural location in Oslo, in the harbor next to the recently opened Opera building. A new public library complex is also set to be built on the same site.