Oslo's Artistic and Academic Treasures
Oslo · Norway
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Immerse yourself in the creative and scientific spirit of Norway as you visit a curated selection of the city's finest cultural institutions. You will encounter everything from cutting-edge contemporary art and world-famous masterpieces to fascinating natural history collections. This journey showcases the diverse ways Oslo preserves and presents human knowledge and creativity.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 11. The rest are in the app.
Astrup Fearnley Museum
A private contemporary art powerhouse funded by shipping wealth and designed by Renzo Piano.
Henriette Wegner Pavilion
A romantic 1824 tea pavilion and symbol of Norway's first organized women's movement.
Museum of Cultural History
The guardian of Norway's only complete Viking helmet and its largest prehistoric collections.
Paradox Museum Oslo
Paradox Museum in Oslo, Norway
Zoological Museum
A university treasure house featuring the rare remains of the extinct great auk and thylacine.
Geological Museum
A national-romantic monument housing the University of Oslo's scientific treasures of stone and fossils.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 5 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Oslo
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How a walk works
5 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 11 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.