National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

When Norway opened its new National Museum on the Oslo waterfront in 2022, it was the largest art museum in the Nordic countries, a long low stone box by the architect Klaus Schuwerk built to outlast almost anything, its top-floor Light Hall glowing like a lantern over the harbour.

The building pulled four older institutions under one roof, among them the former National Gallery, and with them came the country's most famous painting. One of the painted versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream hangs here now, in a room of 18 Munch works that also holds The Sick Child and The Dance of Life.

Around them the collection runs from medieval Norwegian church art through design and architecture to the present, a national story gathered in one place for the first time.