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   Munch Museum

   A thirteen-storey tower on the Bjørvika waterfront, opened in 2021 to hold the twenty-eight thousand works Munch left the city in his will — most of his output. Versions of the Scream are rotated so that only one is lit at a time.

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   Akershus Fortress

   A castle begun about 1300 that never fell to a siege, on the point commanding the harbour. The Germans used it as a headquarters, and Vidkun Quisling was tried and shot in its grounds in 1945; the resistance museum inside covers both.

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   Royal Palace, Oslo

   The palace built in the 1820s and 40s for the Swedish king who also ruled Norway, standing at the top of Karl Johans gate with no fence around it. The guard changes at half past one, and the king's own study is shown on summer tours.

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   Oslo Cathedral

   The cathedral of Oslo, consecrated in 1697, with ceiling paintings added between 1936 and 1950. It became the focus of national mourning after the attacks of 22 July 2011, when the square outside filled with several hundred thousand roses.

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   Vigeland installation

   Two hundred and twelve sculptures in bronze, granite and iron, every one of them by Gustav Vigeland, arranged along an axis in Frogner Park. All the figures are naked and none is titled; the Monolith at the top is a single granite column of a hundred and twenty-one entangled bodies.

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   Holmenkollen

   A hill west of the city where ski jumping competitions have been held since 1892, on a jump rebuilt nineteen times — the present steel cantilever dates from 2010. The ski museum inside it is the oldest of its kind in the world.

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   National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

   The largest art museum in the Nordic countries, opened in 2022 on the harbour, holding the state collections of art, architecture and design in one building. The Scream hangs here in its most famous version, along with Munch's Madonna.

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   Nobel Peace Center

   A centre opened in 2005 in the old west railway station, explaining the peace prize and each year's laureate. Norway awards this one prize while Sweden awards the rest, a division Alfred Nobel's will never explained.

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   Fram Museum

   A museum built around the Fram itself — the strongest wooden ship ever constructed, designed to be squeezed up by pack ice rather than crushed, and used by Nansen towards the North Pole and by Amundsen to Antarctica. You can go aboard and into the cabins.

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    Viking Ship Museum

    The museum holding the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune ships, dug out of Norwegian burial mounds where clay had preserved them almost whole. It closed in 2021 for replacement by a much larger building, expected to reopen around 2027.

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   Frogner Park

   The largest park in Oslo, always open and free, and the setting for the Vigeland sculptures. Its rose garden holds fourteen thousand plants of a hundred and fifty varieties, the biggest collection in Norway.

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   Gol Stave Church

   A twelfth-century stave church from Hallingdal, dismantled and re-erected at Bygdøy in the 1880s at the king's initiative when its parish wanted to replace it. Stave construction — timber posts standing on sills rather than sunk in the ground — is why any of them survive.

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   Kon-Tiki Museum

   The museum of Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions, holding the balsa raft Kon-Tiki that drifted from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 and the reed boat Ra II. His theory of Polynesian origins has not survived the genetics, but the voyage did.

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   Bjørvika

   The inner harbour, industrial until the 2000s and now the city's showpiece — the opera house of 2008 whose sloping marble roof the public walks on, the Munch tower, the library and the Barcode row of narrow high-rises behind them.

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   Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art

   A private contemporary art museum in a Renzo Piano building of 2012 at Tjuvholmen, with a glass roof like a sail and a sculpture park on the water. Its collection is strong on 1980s American appropriation, and Koons's porcelain Michael Jackson is in it.

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   Norway's Resistance Museum

   A museum inside Akershus Fortress in Oslo. It deals with the Norwegian resistance under the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with the equipment, photographs and documents of those years.

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   Oscarshall

   A royal summer villa on Frognerkilen at Bygdøy in Oslo. Oscar I had it built in neo-Gothic between 1847 and 1852; it opens for the summer months and shows nineteenth-century Norwegian painting.

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   Tusenfryd

   Amusement park near Oslo, opened in 1988 and the largest in Norway. It runs only in the warm season, from May to September.

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   National Gallery of Norway

   The nineteenth-century gallery that held Norway's national art collection, including the Scream, until everything moved to the new National Museum in 2022. The building itself is listed and its future use has been argued over since.

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    St. Olav's Cathedral

    The Catholic cathedral of Oslo, built in 1856, not long after Norway lifted a ban on Catholic worship that had stood for nearly three centuries after the Reformation. Polish and Filipino migration has since made Catholicism the fastest-growing church in the country.

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