7 Hidden Gems in Oslo Most People Walk Right Past
7 landmarks with verified facts and stories
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.
Ekeberg Sculpture Park
23 Kongsveien, Gamle Oslo, Oslo, 0193, Norway
This is the exact spot where Edvard Munch felt an infinite scream pass through nature.
Emanuel Vigeland Museum
8 Gravdalsveien, Vestre Aker, Oslo, 0756, Norway
This is Oslo's strangest museum, and possibly the strangest museum in Scandinavia.
Grefsenkollen
100 Grefsenkollveien, Marka, Oslo, 0490, Norway
At 379 meters above sea level, Grefsenkollen offers what is arguably the best panoramic view of Oslo and the Oslofjord — the entire city laid out below like a relief map, with the fjord stretching south toward Denmark and the forested hills of Nordmarka rising behind you.
Grünerløkka Brygghus
30B Thorvald Meyers gate, Grünerløkka, Oslo, 0555, Norway
Norway's relationship with alcohol is famously complicated.
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.
Mathallen Oslo
5 Vulkan, Grünerløkka, Oslo, 0178, Norway
The building that now houses Oslo's best food hall used to produce steel bridges.
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