Oslo
Norway | Anno 2024, 2025
Oslo
Oslo
Oslo – Karl Johans gate, Royal Palace
Royal Palace
Royal Palace, equestrian statue of Karl Johan |
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Royal Guard |
Rådhus (Town Hall) |
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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year in the Rådhus in the large central hall, which is decorated with monumental murals by Henrik Sørensens
Wedding hall |
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Gamle Rådhus (former town hall, 1641) |
Parliament Park
Christiania Torv – Fountain with the glove of Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, as a symbol of oppression |
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Statue of Cecilie as a symbol for incurable breast cancer (Håkon Anton Fagerås, 2022) |
Public toilets in the French tricolour with the famous motto of the French Revolution
Storting (Norwegian parliament)
Domkirke (1697) |
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Domkirke
Domkirke – Iron Roses. Each rose commemorates one of the 77 victims of the terrorist attack of 22 July 2011 (Tobbe Malm en MDH Arkitekter, 2019)
Oslo Opera House (Snøhetta, 2008
Opera House
Opera House
Munch Museum (Juan Herreros, 2021)
The museum leans slightly forward to suggest that Munch is thanking his audience for this tribute with a slight bow
National Museum – The Scream (Edvard Munch, 1893) |
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Munch Museum – The Scream (Edvard Munch, 1910) |
Munch Museum –The Scream (Edvard Munch, lithograph, 1895) |
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Munch Museum – Fear (Edvard Munch, lithograph, 1896) |
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National Museum – Edvard Munch (°1863), self-portraits (1886 and 1895)
Edvard Munch – Puberty (1894) |
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Inger Munch in black (1884) |
Edvard Munch – The Dance of Life (1899-1900) |
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Girls on the bridge (1901) |
Barcode district with the white Nordenga bridge
The Barcode District owes its official name to the resemblance of some facades to a barcode
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In a long poem in his diary, Munch describes how, during an evening walk with friends in 1891, as the sun set over the Oslo Fjord, he was suddenly overcome with fear and felt a tremendous, infinite scream ripple through nature. Did he then find inspiration for his famous "Scream"? A plaque on Ekebergskrenten certainly commemorates that moment.
Ekebergparken – Reaching Out (Thomas J. Price, 2020) |
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Marilyn Monroe (Richard Hudson, 2002) |
Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs (Milo’s Venus with drawers, Salvador Dalí, 1964) |
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Deep Cream Maradona (Sarah Lucas, 2016) |
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The Vigeland Sculpture Park was created by Gustav Vigeland between 1920 and 1943
The park has 212 stone and bronze statues
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Six bronze atlantes support a fountain
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On the 17-meter-high monolith, 121 human figures climb over each other, representing the human quest for the spiritual. Norwegian Ivar Broe, Swede Nils Jönsson, and Dane Karl Kjær worked on the monolith for fourteen years. Broe and Jönsson died relatively young, perhaps as a result of years of inhaling mineral dust
The monumental sculpture is surrounded by a circular staircase with 36 groups of granite figures arranged in rows on the staircase
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Granite figures around the monolith
The Wheel of Life symbolises the transience of earthly life
Akershus, medieval fortress built around 1290
The Fram Museum houses two of Norway's most iconic explorer ships – the Fram and the Gjøa
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The Fram had a wide, egg-shaped hull without a keel, so the ice couldn't affect it. The ship wasn't compressed by the ice, but simply pushed upwards, so it floated on the ice. The rudder and propeller could be retracted
The ship's hull was extra reinforced to withstand the pressure of the ice |
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A windmill powered a generator to provide electricity for lighting the ship with arc lamps – a first for that time |
Impression of the Fram during Fridtjof Nansen's Arctic expedition. For almost three years (1893-1896), the ship was frozen in the ice
Fridtjof Nansen in his cabin with scientific equipment |
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The sewing machine on board was vital for making and repairing sails, clothing, sleeping bags, etc. |
A piano and 600 books were supposed to provide some variety during the long Arctic night. A pair of skis hangs from the ceiling
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With the relatively small Gjøa (23.1 m long) and a crew of only six, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen was the first to complete the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1903-1906)
The Gjøa had a 13-hp two-cylinder Dan engine on board. Modern Zodiacs typically have a 60-hp engine
Utøya
On 22 July 2011, a far-right terrorist murdered 69 young people on the island of Utøya, about 50 kilometres northwest of Oslo. Two hours earlier, he had detonated a car bomb in the government quarters in Oslo, killing eight and injuring 209
The young people were part of the Workers' Youth League summer camp. Utøya had been an important location for the socialist movement since 1950. Since 2022, a monument has commemorated the 77 victims
Each of the bronze columns bears the name of one of the victims
Together the columns create an undulating movement, as if embracing each other while looking towards Utøya
Jaak Palmans
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