Heritage, Museums and Landmarks
Monks, warships, and eight million swimmers — the island seven minutes from Oslo City Hall that keeps rewriting its own story.
Akershus Fortress, the Royal Palace, the Fram Museum, the National Museum, Vigeland Park and more — this section offers historically grounded interpretations of Oslo’s major landmarks. Each site is presented not merely as an attraction, but also as part of Norway’s political, cultural and social history.
Hovedøya: Three layers of history on Oslo’s monastery island
Monks, warships, and eight million swimmers — the island seven minutes from Oslo City Hall that keeps rewriting its own ...
Roosevelt’s most memorable moment in Oslo: The chocolate watch at Egertorget
Is it true that president Roosevelt was impressed by a Norwegian chocolate factory's marketing? Who knows. And here's what else ...
How the statues around the Royal castle tell the complicated story of a nation finding it’s new identity
Statues and art work tell the story of how a nation that had spent four centuries as a Danish province ...
Botanical Garden in Oslo has been here for more than 200 years. But it was meant to be the university
Oslo Botanical garden was established more than 200 years ago. Here's some how, why and what ...
Akershus’ 700 Years of Secrets: From Medieval Stronghold to Modern Powerhouse
The king was so tired of aggressive Swedes shooting arrows from the top of Ekeberg into old Oslo. So he ...
The Vigeland Park: How Gustav Vigeland shaped humanity in 80 acres
He had a troubled relationship with his father—and at least four women. How could the sculptor Vigeland still so intensely ...
Oslo’s Royal Palace and how it came to be
Built in the 1820s and 1840s, the Royal Palace in Oslo redirected the city’s growth and symbolised a new nation ...
Oslo Cathedral, faith, and the making of a plural city
Norway is among the most secular countries in the world. But we have a lot of churches anyway. This is ...
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 ...
The Night Man in Stensparken
Stensparken belongs to the wider Fagerborg–St. Hanshaugen landscape that forms the emotional and geographical backdrop of The Half Brother, Lars ...
Walk the talk on the roof of the Opera
Democracy and equality can be expressed in many ways. One of them is to step on cultural icons. Literally, as ...
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 ...
