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Alexander Turcic · 08-22-2004, 11:51 AM

I know this is very much OT, but it is so crazy that I thought to post it here. Today armed men stormed into Oslo's Munch museum, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings The Scream and Madonna before the eyes of stunned museum-goers.

Every high-school kid probably knows the famout The Scream Expressionist painting. It is perhaps less known that there are four versions the same painting. The Munch Museum had two of them, a private collector owns the third and the fourth is on display at Oslo's National Gallery.

Crazy world we live in...

08-22-2004, 11:51 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Edvard Munch's Scream stolen I know this is very much OT, but it is so crazy that I thought to post it here. Today armed men stormed into Oslo's Munch museum, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole Edvard Munch's famous paintings The Scream and Madonna before the eyes of stunned museum-goers. Every high-school kid probably knows the famout The Scream Expressionist painting. It is perhaps less known that there are four versions the same painting. The Munch Museum had two of them, a private collector owns the third and the fourth is on display at Oslo's National Gallery. Crazy world we live in...