VIGELANDSPARKENVigelandsparken is the largest sculpture park in the world by one artist. It took Gustav Vigeland 35 years to complete. There are over 200 bronze sculptures and 20 or so made of granite, including The Monolith, which is 17m high and composed of 121 intertwined bodies.
There's free entrance and it's open 24/7 (in leap years, it's open 366 days!). You can reach it by tram 12 or bus 20. The stop is called: Vigelandsparken. You can also walk from Majorstuen metro station; two blocks to the right of the station. the National art galleryThis gallery has famous pieces like Rodin's The Thinker & Edvard Munch's Scream, probably Norway's most famous painter. It has 24 rooms that represent 4 art periods, and a temporary exhibition room downstairs. It's closed on Mondays. It's FREE on Thursdays! The same ticket gives you access to 4 museums: the national gallery, the modern art museum (not the Astrup Fearnley, which is also modern art... for hipsters), the architecture museum, and the industrial design museum (my favorite of them all).
This museum has student discount (I prefer Thursdays). Schedule and pricing changes by season, so it's best to check out the museum's website. Useless fact: In Disney's Frozen, the decor of the castle where Ana and Elsa live is this gallery (you can clearly see it when Ana sings "For the first time in forever".)
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