After an intense morning, where we visited the museums located on the Bygdøy peninsula we headed toward the city, specifically decided to visit the most famous street of Oslo – Karl Johans Gate. Street connects the building of the Royal…
Nobel Peace Center
The last museum we had plans to see was the Museum of the Nobel Peace Prize. The entire building is dedicated to granted each year award for making peace in the World. Our compatriot – Lech Walesa – also received…
Norwegian Maritime Museum
We went to explore next museum located opposite to the museum of Fram. This time, the museum of the Norwegian Navy. We can found there an overview of the history and techniques of the Navy. It is the largest of the…
Polar Ship Museum FRAM
Right next to the Kon-Tiki Museum is located FRAM – dedicated to “the strongest ship in the world – Fram.” This Norwegian schooner was built in 1892. and was used in the most important polar expeditions. During the Fridtjofa Nasenn expedition…
Kon-Tiki Museum
Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl took expedition across the Pacific Ocean on a Kon-Tiki raft in 1947. Presented in the museum’s famous raft “Kon-Tiki” was constructed of lightweight balsa wood and bound with ropes, without the use of nails. Explorer sailed the…
Norwegian Museum of Cultural History
After a visit to the Viking Ship Museum we headed north along the main street, and after a few minutes of walking we reached the Norwegian Folk Museum. It is a museum with 155 buildings from the years 1600 –…
Viking ship museum
Saturday May 2 was a busy day for us. It is rare to spend the whole day exploring the museums. We purchased the card Oslo Pass, which was created especially for tourists. It allows admission to museums and gives you…
Ekeberg Hill
When we came back from exploring of Holmenkollen Ski Jump Arena we were in the city center again. There was a noon so we decided to go to the opposite part of the city to explore Ekeberg hill. We saw…
Holmenkollen Ski Jump Arena
On the outskirts of Oslo there is a hill named Holmenkollen. There is located popular Ski Jump Arena. We can get there by subway – Line 1. Railway is climbing over the mountains and allows us to view beautiful panoramas…
Oslo Opera and Akershus fortress
We’ve started exploring Oslo city. When we were making selection of hotel we took the one that is located in Oslo center to have best location for sightseeing, where we can start and have everything close no matter which direction…