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Astrup Fearnley Museet
GALLERY
aden 2; adult/student/child Nkr100/60/free, guided tours Nkr50;
noon-5pm Tue-Wed & Fri,
noon-7pm Thu, 11am-5pm Sat & Sun)
Recently re-opened in a stunning architectural creation at the centre of Oslo's waterfront,
this museum, which contains all manner of zany contemporary art, is Oslo's latest flagship
project and the artistic highlight of the city.
Designed by Renzo Piano and completed in 2012, the museum resides within a wonder-
ful wooden building floating on jetties and rafts, with sail-like roofs that, appropriately,
gives the building the look of an old wooden boat. Incorporated into the overall design are
canals, parks, a not-quite-yet-complete shopping and restaurant complex and, a favourite
with Oslo families in summer, a small pebble beach.
Rather than a collection from a specific historical period, or from a certain artistic
movement, the museum concentrates on individual pieces of work or artists who have
pushed artistic boundaries. Saying that, the bulk of the original collection is focused on
American artists from the 1980s, but today it has become far more wide-ranging in its out-
look and the collection hosts pieces by Tom Sachs, Cindy Sherman and Cai Guo-Qiang. Its
most famous piece is the gilded ceramic sculpture
Michael Jackson and Bubbles,
by Jeff
Koons.
Guided tours in English taking in the best of the collection run at 5.30pm on Thursdays
in July and August. Tours in Norwegian run at 1pm and 2pm every Saturday and Sunday
year round.
Nobels Fredssenter
MUSEUM
48 30 10 00;
www.nobelpeacecenter.org
; Rådhus-
plassen 1; adult/student/child Nkr90/60/free;
10am-6pm daily mid-May-Sep, Tue-Sun rest of
year)
Norwegians take pride in their role as international peacemakers, and the Nobel Peace Pr-
ize is their gift to the men and women judged to have done the most to promote world
peace over the course of the previous year. This state-of-the-art museum celebrates the
lives and achievements of the winners with an array of digital displays intended to offer as
much or as little information as the visitor desires.
