You can’t visit Oslo and not seek out ‘The Scream’ though given there are 4 versions of Munch’s ‘The Scream’ so it is not hard to find. And so we did find one at the National Museum. The most common questions asked about Edvard Munch's ‘The Scream’ focus on its ambiguity. These fall into a few core categories: Is the figure screaming? What inspired the background figures? Is there a deeper meaning?
But the question on my lips was ‘Who stole The Scream?’
So I asked the guard who was alert to protecting ‘The Scream’ and asked ‘Who stole The Scream?’ He said that in 1994 the Winter Olympics were held in Lillehammer and police were called away from Oslo. The city was thus police free so the art thieves struck. They used a ladder to gain entry to the Museum and stole The Scream! In 3 weeks the painting was returned along with a note explaining that it was easy to steal
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