Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
▲▲▲City Hall
Oslo's artsy 20th-century government building, lined
with huge, vibrant, municipal-themed murals, best visited with included
tour.
Hours:
Daily 9:00-18:00; tours daily at 10:00, 12:00, and 14:00,
▲▲▲National Gallery
Norway's cultural and natural essence, captured
on canvas.
Hours:
Tue-Fri 10:00-18:00, Thu until 19:00, Sat-Sun
▲▲▲Frogner Park
Sprawling park with works by Norway's greatest
sculptor, Gustav Vigeland, and the studio where he created them (now
a museum).
Hours:
Park—always open; Vigeland Museum—June-Aug
Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00, Sept-May Tue-Sun 12:00-16:00, closed Mon year-
round. See
here
.
▲▲▲Norwegian Folk Museum
Norway condensed into 150 historic
buildings in a large open-air park.
Hours:
Daily mid-May-mid-Sept
10:00-18:00, off-season park open Mon-Fri 11:00-15:00, Sat-Sun
▲▲Norwegian Resistance Museum
Gripping look at Norway's tumul-
tuous WWII experience.
Hours:
June-Aug Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00, Sun
11:00-17:00; Sept-May Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-16:00. See
▲▲Viking Ship Museum
An impressive trio of ninth-century Viking
ships, with exhibits on the people who built them.
Hours:
Daily May-