Norway: New Munch Museum

On Tuesday I got my stamp order from Norway which also included a maxicard about the New Munch Museum in Oslo. 

Edvard Munch is probably the most famous Norwegian artist of all times. When he died in 1944, he left everything he owned in terms of paintings, sketches, photographs and sculptures to Oslo Municipality. Already in 1963, for Munch's 100th birthday, a museum was opened with this donation and other artworks, but back in 2008 a decision was reached to build a new museum for the collection, as the old museum was insufficient to display and maintain the collection. The new museum with 13 floors on Oslo's waterfront was designed by Juan Herreros and will open in fall 2020. It was created to reach a broader audience and to experience Edvard Munch's life and art in a completely new way. To commemorate the new museum the Norwegian Post issued a stamp (issued 12-06-2020), which was used on this maxicard. I really like the design of the stamp with the new building in the front and a painting by Munch in the background. The special postmark shows the museum from a different perspective and shown on the card is Munch's painting Train Smoke from 1900. This is just one of the 28000 works of Edvard Munch, which are part of the museum's collection. The most famous for sure is The Scream, of which two of four versions are housed in the Munch Museum.