av Paal Leveraas | mar 12, 2026 | Art, Culture and Architecture, Heritage, Museums and Landmarks, Oslo
On the west side of Oslo, beyond elegant residential streets and leafy avenues, Frogner Park opens into one of the most remarkable artistic landscapes in Europe. The park covers around 460,000 square meters, roughly 115 acres, making it the largest park in central...
av Paal Leveraas | des 3, 2025 | Heritage, Museums and Landmarks, History of Norway, Oslo
Vigeland Park is one of Oslo’s most iconic landmarks, a sculpture park without parallel in scale, ambition, and emotional depth. But to understand the park, you must understand the man behind it—Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943): sculptor, dramatist of human emotion,...
av Paal Leveraas | okt 29, 2025 | Art, Culture and Architecture, Oslo, Things to do
What makes Ibsen relevant today?Pretty much everything.Not because we worship dust and top hats, but because he wrote about the hardest thing of all: being human – in 1879 and in 2025. At the Ibsen Museum, that becomes more than literature. Here, you feel both the...
av Paal Leveraas | okt 22, 2025 | Heritage, Museums and Landmarks, Norwegian Society, Oslo
Beneath Holmenkollen, where the snow often lies a little whiter and the stories a little thicker, you’ll find the Ski Museum. Its Snøhetta-designed façade is inspired by traditional ski craftsmanship – a poetic greeting to “the trees that never became skis.” A perfect...