Tøyen and Damstredet

The Munch Museum is east of the city center in Tøyen, an area where Edvard Munch spent many of his years in Oslo. The Tøyen district has a much different feel than Oslo's cushy west side—it's multiethnic and more industrial. West of Tøyen, north of the city center near the cemetery Vår Frelsers Gravlund, is the quiet, old-fashioned district of Damstredet, one of the few areas with original, 18th-century wooden houses.