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Hausmannskvartalene: an urban area defined by ambiguity
Reference article based on a commentary by Knut Schreiner, published in Aftenposten on 18 January 2026.
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Oslo City Hall: A living monument of the building of a nation
Oslo City hall is more than a building, it is a monument of the building of a nation.
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Stensparken and “The Night Man”
Stensparken belongs to the wider Fagerborg–St. Hanshaugen landscape that forms the emotional and geographical backdrop of The Half Brother, Lars Saabye-Christensens novel. Read the fascinating story about the park, the night man and the surroundings.
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From Villa Grande to the Holocaust Center: a house, a nation, and the problem of reckoning
The history of Villa Grande is not a footnote to Norwegian history. It is a condensed version of it. In his lecture, historian Carl Emil Vogt traces how one building moved through radically different political, moral, and social regimes—and how those shifts reveal Norway’s long and uneasy process of reckoning with the Second World War.…
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When fascism met its limits: street politics and antifascism in pre-war Oslo
In the interwar years, Oslo was not merely a capital city. It was a political landscape, shaped and contested street by street. Fascism and antifascism in Norway did not unfold only in parliament or in newspapers, but in cafés, tenement stairwells, school gyms, backyards, and public squares. Above all, it unfolded on the east side…
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The Oslo Opera House: Where the City Meets the Sea
Oslo Opera house is both a cultural palace and a public space. Welcome in. And out.
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Inside MUNCH: Meeting Edvard Munch in the Bjørvika Labyrinth
Edvard Munch is one of the world´s most famous painters. Join my guided tour in the MUNCH museum, and learn about the man, his time, and his art.
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Gustav Vigeland: The Man, the Museum, and the Park That Became His Life’s Work
Vigeland Park is one of Oslo’s most iconic landmarks, a sculpture park without parallel in scale, ambition, and emotional depth. But to understand the park, you must understand the man behind it—Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943).
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From Stone to Steel: A Thousand Years of Architecture in Oslo
What is architecture, really? That question set the tone for an interesting venture into a thousand years of Oslo´s architectural history,
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The Ibsen Museum
I visited the Ibsen Museum on Oct 29, 2025. Our group from Oslo Guide Course was led by the fabulous Bergljot Geist, the managing director. Here are my reflections and learnings.