Akerselva River Walk
Sagene, Oslo, Norway
The Akerselva is the only industrial river in Europe that starts and finishes within the same capital city.
Akershus Fortress
1 Festningsplassen, Sentrum, Oslo, 0015, Norway
This fortress has been besieged at least six times and never once been taken.
Bygdøy Peninsula
Gamle Oslo, Oslo, 0286, Norway
Bygdøy has belonged to Norwegian royalty almost continuously since 1305, when King Haakon V gave it to Queen Eufemia.
Damstredet
0175 Damstredet, Grünerløkka, Oslo, 0177, Norway
This 160-meter lane of painted wooden houses is the closest thing Oslo has to a time machine.
Fram Museum
39 Bygdøynesveien, Frogner, Oslo, 0286, Norway
The Fram is the strongest wooden ship ever built, and the only vessel in history to have sailed both furthest north and furthest south of any ship on earth.
Holmenkollen Ski Jump
5 Kongeveien, Marka, Oslo, 0787, Norway
This ski jump has been rebuilt eighteen times.
Hovedøya Island
Hovedøya, Gamle Oslo, Oslo, 0150, Norway
Five minutes by ferry from the center of a capital city, there's an island with twelfth-century monastery ruins, Napoleonic-era cannon batteries, half-a-billion years of geology, and a population of five people.
Karl Johans gate
Karl Johans gate, Sentrum, Oslo, 0159, Norway
This street connects three pillars of Norwegian governance in a single straight line: the Royal Palace at one end, the Parliament in the middle, and the Cathedral near the other.
Norway's Resistance Museum
21 Akershusstranda, Sentrum, Oslo, 0150, Norway
The museum sits inside the fortress where the things it documents actually happened.
Norwegian Folk Museum
10 Museumsveien, Frogner, Oslo, 0287, Norway
In the 1880s, a parish in Gol wanted to demolish its old stave church to build a shiny new one.
Oslo Cathedral
11 Karl Johans gate, Sentrum, Oslo, 0154, Norway
This is Oslo's third attempt at a cathedral.
Oslo City Hall
Fridtjof Nansens plass, Sentrum, Oslo, 0160, Norway
Every December 10th, in the main hall of this red-brick building, someone receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sørenga & Medieval Oslo
4 Sørengkaia, Gamle Oslo, Oslo, 0194, Norway
The original city of Oslo is buried here.
The Royal Palace
Slottsplassen 1, 0010 Oslo
The man who commissioned this palace was a French soldier named Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte who somehow ended up as King of Norway and Sweden.
Viking Ship Museum
Huk Aveny 35, 0287 Oslo
The Oseberg ship was built around 820 AD, buried in 834 AD with two women and fifteen horses, and then sat under blue clay for over a thousand years until a farmer's spade hit wood in 1903.
Explore history in Oslo
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