From its “grey box-like” appearance and eye-popping price tag to protracted construction delays, Norway’s new National Museum has kept the critics busy.
Located on Oslo’s western waterfront, the £500m museum will be the biggest in the Nordic region when it opens on 11 June. Yet its director, Karin Hindsbo, has felt sufficiently contrite to apologise for extensive delays that kept renowned artworks such as Edvard Munch’s most famous version of The Scream out of public view for years.
