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Out of the centre but without question a major attraction, the Munch Museum , Tøyengata 53 (June to mid-Sept daily 10am-6pm; mid-Sept to May Tues-Sun 10am-4pm, Thurs & Sun till 6pm; 50kr), is reachable by T-bane: get off at Tøyen and it's a signposted five-minute walk. Born in 1863, Edvard Munch is Norway's most famous painter. His lithographs and woodcuts are shown in one half of the gallery, a dark catalogue of swirls and fog, and in the main gallery there are early paintings along with the great, signature works of the 1890s. Highlights include Dagny Juel , an emotive portrait of the Berlin socialite with whom both Munch and Strindberg were infatuated, and the haunting Red Virginia Creeper , a house being consumed by the plant - the museum also owns no less than fifty versions of The Scream . Later paintings reflect a renewed interest in nature and physical work, as in the Workers on Their Way Home and the light Winter in Kragerø and Model by the Wicker Chair , which reveals a happier, if rather idealized, attitude to his surroundings also evident in works such as Spring Ploughing .
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