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and video exhibits and high-tech gadgetry (all with good English explana-
tions).Allowtimeforreadingaboutpastprizewinnersandlisteningtoaccept-
ance speeches by recipients from President Carter to Mother Theresa. Check
out the astonishing interactive book detailing the life and work of Alfred No-
bel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who initiated the prizes—perhaps to
assuage his conscience.
Cost and Hours:
80 kr; mid-May-Aug daily 10:00-18:00; Sept-mid-May
Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, closed Mon; included guided tours at 12:00, 14:00,
and 15:00, fewer in winter; Brynjulfs Bulls Plass 1, tel. 48 30 10 00,
▲Opera House
—Opened in 2008, Oslo's striking Opera House is the talk
of the town and a huge hit. The Opera House rises from the water on the
city's eastern harbor, across the highway from the train station (use the sky-
bridge). Its boxy, low-slung, glass center holds a state-of-the-art, 1,400-seat
main theater. The jutting white marble planes of its roof double as a public
plaza. When visiting, you feel a need to walk all over it. The Opera House is
part of a larger harbor-redevelopment plan that includes rerouting traffic into
tunnels and turning a once-derelict industrial zone into an urban park.
Cost and Hours:
Foyer and café/restaurant open Mon-Fri 10:00-23:00,
Sat 11:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-22:00.
