[4][needs update] A new building to house the National Museum was constructed on Vestbanen in Oslo,[5] and opened in June 2022.

During this period, the museum also received large donations from industrial heirs Olaf Schou (1909), papal chamberlain and count Christopher Paus (1918), and Chr.

During that time, Rome was marked by significant expansion and extensive construction work, which unearthed many archaeological finds.

At the same time, many artifacts ended up on the market because several Italian noble families who had collected them couldn't handle the transition from feudalism to a modern society.

[9] Both Paus and other foreign art collectors, such as Carl Jacobsen, built large collections during this period and brought them back to their native countries.

[10] The museum has a vast collection of Norwegian Romantic Nationalism movement paintings, as well as Edvard Munch's works.

Other significant artists include J.C Dahl, Adolph Tidemand, Hans Gude, Harriet Backer, and Christian Krohg.

The launch of a new basic exhibition "Everyone is Talking About the Museum" in 2005 increased visitor numbers but also had some negative reaction.

The new permanent exhibition has been praised as ‘a short version of the world’s art history instead of a revisit of the museum’s own collection’.

The museum's extensive graphic and drawing collection includes almost 50,000 Norwegian and foreign works, and spans from the end of the 1400s to current day.

Central artists include Durer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Goya, Picasso, Manet, Rafael, Rubens, Muncb, Tidemand, Dahl, Werenskiold, and Kittelsen.

In and outside the museum installations by the artists Per Inge Bjørlo, Inner Space VS. the Goal (1990) and the gallery room was dedicated to Louise Bourgeois.

Known Norwegian artists within the collection were Anna-Eva Bergman, Leonard Rickhard, Bjarne Melgaard, and Marianne Heske.

Known international artists include Mario Merz, Cindy Sherman, Ilya Kabakov, and Isaac Julien.

The main building – the oldest section – was the Norges Banks Christianiaavdeling which was designed by Christian H. Grosch and was finished in 1830.

National Museum – Architecture shows alternating exhibits from the collection that consists of models, drawing, and photographs.

The National Museum has Norway's most important architecture collection, featuring more than 300,000 items dated from the 1830s to current day.

These span over a large variation of materials and mediums: architectural drawings, photographs, models, conceptual studies, sketchbooks, correspondences and ephemera.

The collection's main focus is the 1900s, and names within Norwegian architectural history such as Ove Bang, Blakstad of Munthe, Jan & Jon, Knut Knutsen, Arne Korsmo, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Magnus Poulsson, and Erling Viksjø are well represented.

The collection of designs and handicrafts ranges from ancient Greek vases and East Asian artefacts to European style history.

The unique Baldishol rug from the 12th century, the royal costume collection, Nøstetangen glass, Norwegian silver and Herrebøe faience are among the highlights.

This was established in 1953 as a government agency under the culture department, to send travelling exhibitions of Norwegian and Nordic art to other parts of the country.

Nordgren resigned as director after a long period of professional criticism and staff conflicts at the museum.

The museum's chairman of the board since the beginning, Christian Bjelland, resigned his position later that autumn, and was replaced by Svein Aaser.

Preservation One of the museum's most important tasks is making sure the art works within the collection are kept in as good a state as possible.

Conservators treat, document, and research the museum's collection of painting, paper, textiles, artwork and design, installations and electronic mediums.

In addition to the yearbook Architecture in Norway and the magazine Kunst og Kultur , the National Museum publishes annual catalogs related to the exhibitions and the collections.

The purpose of Kunst og kultur is to publish peer-reviewed articles within Norwegian and international art history and current book reviews.

Digital commitment The museum performs digitisation work of the collections, through the medium of DigitaltMuseum and Google Art Project, which can be accessed online.