One cold Oslo morning in mid-November, the kind where each hour of daylight is a gift and the air chills any optimistic thought of lingering outside, the opening of “Deviant Ornaments” at the National ...

OSLO, Norway – For decades, Oslo lived in the shadow of Scandinavia’s two other capitals, Stockholm and Copenhagen, Denmark. The Norwegian city, alongside a picturesque fjord dotted with rugged ...

As activists increasingly target artworks in stunts aimed at drawing attention to the climate emergency, museums have started to up their security measures to protect their collections. This morning, ...

The Munch Museum is arguably the crown jewel of Oslo’s art offerings. Photo: Nick Hilden “Art is as much about searching as it is about creating,” wrote Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard in his ...

City administrators hope Norway’s new National Museum will help Oslo, and the rest of the country, step out of its Scandinavian neighbors’ shadows. By Thomas Rogers OSLO — For decades, Oslo lived in ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the late 1940s are being returned by a museum in Oslo to Chile’s remote territory of Easter ...

The National Museum of Oslo just got a pleasant surprise. For 80 years, a Peter Paul Rubens oil sketch has hung on its walls without anyone knowing it -- it was, until now, attributed to an “unknown ...

Three climate activists were arrested at a Norway museum Friday after targeting Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” in a protest. Two women unsuccessfully tried to glue themselves to the 1893 ...