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    take a look inside Norway’s half-a-billion pound mega museum

    Read more about Norway’s new National Museum here While Oslo’s other shiny new mega museum, the Munch, looms up dramatically over the habourside, the National Museum is more subtle and retiring. Despite a spectacular setting on the edge of the fjord, next to the ferry ports and opposite Oslo’s famous City Hall, the new museum slots in graciously behind two old train station buildings, one of which now hosts the Nobel Peace Center. Long and low, it is hard to see the true scale of this building—the biggest museum in the Nordic countries, with more floorspace than the Rijksmuseum—other than from the air. It needs to be big. The National…

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