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Too many hands on ‘Sinnataggen’

The popular statue of an angry little boy in Oslo's Frogner Park, called "Sinnataggen," is suddenly showing signs of being a bit too popular...

Viking ships lose out to Munch

Two of Oslo's most traditional tourist attractions, the Viking Ship Museum and Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy, are reporting declines in their numbers of...

Museum aims to raise sunken ship

Officials at the Stavanger Maritime Museum are laying plans to raise their historic sailing vessel "Wyvern," which sank in a storm in the Baltic...

Historic vessel sinks off Sweden

UPDATED: Swedish maritime authorities reported Thursday morning that an historic Norwegian vessel home-ported in Stavanger had started taking in water and later sank in...

Holocaust Center wins more funding

At a time when many museums in Norway are struggling with budget cuts, the Holocaust Center in Oslo has been granted NOK 20 million. The funding...

Munch’s art wins place in the sun

It's been heady times of late for Norway's most famous artist, Edvard Munch. Long hailed abroad but seemingly ignored at home, Munch's art itself...

State helped pay for journalists’ Munch coverage

Norwegian media have been reporting about large numbers of foreign journalists arriving in Oslo to cover the weekend opening of a major new exhibit...

Norwegian art on the Internet

Norway's National Gallery and Munch Museum, already cooperating on the biggest exhibition of art by Edvard Munch ever, are also joining the Google Art...

Majority hails new Munch Museum

More than half of Norwegians surveyed in a new public opinion poll were glad and relieved that Oslo's city government finally agreed this week...

New Munch Museum finally approved

Just days before the opening in Oslo of what's billed as the largest exhibition ever of Edvard Munch's art comes news that a majority...
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