Editing Munch Museum (section)

=== Current ===

Previously, in 2008, the City of Oslo promoted an architectural competition for a new Munch Museum in the area of [[Bjørvika]], a new urban development where the [[Oslo Opera House]] is also located.  The competition was won in 2009 by Spanish architect [[Juan Herreros]] and his studio Herreros Arquitectos (now estudio Herreros).<ref>{{cite web|url=  https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/192-juan-herreros |title=  Juan Herreros|publisher=    Columbia GSAPP |accessdate= 1 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="newsinenglish">{{cite news | url=http://www.newsinenglish.no/2013/05/29/majority-cheers-new-munch-museum/ | title=Majority hails new Munch Museum |website=newsinenglish.no | date=29 May 2013 | accessdate=3 August 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.archdaily.com/18091/munch-museum-and-deichman-library-in-oslo-competition-results/ Munch Museum and Deichman Library in Oslo competition results] ArcDaily, 27 March 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2012</ref>

Before the local election in Oslo in 2011, the Oslo Progress Party decided that they would no longer support the project due to economic concerns. After the election, in December 2011, the Oslo City Council voted to end the project. Instead the council wanted to consider improving the current museum or moving the collection to [[Nasjonalgalleriet]].<ref>[http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10016522 Oslo bystyre vraker Lambda] VG, 14 December 2011 (in Norwegian)</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=Saleha | last=Mohsin | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324469304578143023477109776 | title=They All Scream for Edvard Munch, but Oslo Can't Satisfy Demand | newspaper=Wall Street Journal | date=27 November 2012}}</ref>

In May 2013, the Oslo City Council finally took the decision to revive the project, and move the museum to its new site on the waterfront, next to the Oslo Opera House. Construction started in September  2015<!--old info: with the new museum expected to be completed during 2019 and scheduled to open to the public by 2020-->.<ref name="newsinenglish"/><ref>{{cite web|url=  http://munchmuseet.no/en/about-the-munch-museum |title= About the Munch Museum|publisher=  Munch Museum
|accessdate= 1 September 2017}}</ref> The new museum has been widely criticised for its design, where it has been branded the unofficial world's largest collection of guard rails.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grønneberg|first=Mathilde Lea, Anders|date=2019-02-28|title=Arkitekt: – Jeg vil si at Munchmuseet suger|url=https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/arkitekt---jeg-vil-si-at-munchmuseet-suger/70816188|access-date=2021-09-26|website=dagbladet.no|language=no}}</ref>

In summer 2021, 28000 pieces of art were moved from the previous museum at Tøyen, to the new museum at Bjørvika, Oslo.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-01 |title=Munchs «Solen» fraktet inn i det nye Munchmuseet |url=https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/innenriks/2021/06/01/munchs-solen-fraktet-inn-i-det-nye-munchmuseet/ |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=Dagsavisen |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.munchmuseet.no/bak-kulissene/|title = Bak kulissene}}</ref>

The museum was opened by [[Harald V of Norway|King Harald V]] on 22 October 2021.<ref name="New museum opened" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bjørnhovde |first1=Hilde |title=Folkefest da Munchmuseet åpnet i Bjørvika: – Alle skal være stolte av dette |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/0G3mV0/forventninger-og-jubel-da-munch-endelig-aapnet-doerene |access-date=26 October 2021 |work=[[Aftenposten]] |language=nb}}</ref>