Oslo, Norway
Things to do in Oslo
Everything in the Atlas for Oslo: places to see and things to do, in one list.
MUNCH
Thirteen floors on the waterfront holding the artist's own bequest — 26,000 works, including the versions of The Scream worth arguing about.
Fram Museum
The polar ship Fram kept whole indoors, with her hull open so you can walk the decks that drifted across the Arctic for three years.
Vigeland Sculpture Park
212 bronze and granite figures by one sculptor in one park, free and open at every hour, including four in the morning.
Akershus Fortress
A medieval castle on the harbour that was never taken by siege, with the government quarter and the fjord on either side of it.
Oslo Opera House
A roof that comes down to the water so the public can walk up it, which is the building's actual argument.
The commuter ferry as a day out
Ride the public boats to Hovedøya and Gressholmen with a swim towel and a bakery bag; it is a city transport ticket, not a cruise.
Waterfront architecture walk
Opera roof to Munch to the library at Bjørvika — twenty years of a city deciding what it wanted to look like, in ninety minutes.
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