Took a quick trip up to Oslo this past week – what a cold place! Though not nearly as much snow as they are used too, much like Munich. I imagine the area would be absolutely gorgeous during spring or summer, and would enjoy going back for some sort of Scandinavian cruise. I was a bit disappointed in the tourist information office – they suggested I visit the National Gallery instead of the Munch Museum, saying The Scream was available to view there. It turns out that three quarters of the National Gallery was closed for renovation, including the Munch room, which you would think the city’s own tourist office would know about… There was, however, an exhibit on Eero Saarinen, so that was good to see.
The best part of the city, though, was Frogner Park – an entire city park full of sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. In the first photo you can see a monolith in the distance. In the second photo you can see that monolith is actually a conglomeration of bodies reaching 50 feet tall, which supposedly took 3 carvers 14 years to make out of a single block of stone.
Finally, a photo of a random train station.
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