Oslo is host to some of the world's most famous museums, including the Munch Museum and the Ibsen Museum. With over 50 different museums of art, history, sports, animals, wizards, magic, miniature bottles, and much more, Oslo offers a museum experience for everyone.
Munch Museum
Munch Museum has one of the largest collections of Edvard Munch art. The museum gives good insight into the artist's role as a pioneer of Expressionism. The famous paintings Scream and Madonna are exhibited here. In the museum, you may also see part of Edvard Munch's gift to the city of Oslo. The gift includes 1,100 paintings, 4,500 watercolors and drawing, about 18,000 graphic works, 6,000 books, letters and other documents. The museum is open all year.
Ibsen Museum
In the Ibsen Museum you can see parts of Henrik Ibsen's apartment and a major exhibition about his life and works. Henrik Ibsen's home, where he lived the last 11 years of his life, is the core focus of the Ibsen Museum. The apartment on the 2nd floor in Arbins gate 1 has been restored to show the colors and architectural details that it had during the poet's lifetime, and Ibsen's workroom stands as he left it. It was in this room he wrote his final dramas: 'John Gabriel Borkman' (1896) and 'When We Dead Awaken' (1899). The museum is open all year.
Norwegian Folk Museum
The Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy is one of the world's largest open-air museums, with 155 historic buildings, were you will find the old town and a stave church from the early 1200s. Indoor exhibitions display folk art, folk costumes, Sami culture, weapons, toys, pharmaceutical history and dental equipment. The museum is open all year.
Kon-Tiki - Museum
Thor Heyerdahl won world fame when, in 1947, he crossed the Pacific with the balsa raft Kon-Tiki. Later spectacular expeditions followed on the reed boats Ra and Tigris. At Kon-Tiki Museum you can see original vessels and updated exhibitions on Heyerdahl's expeditions, including Kon-Tiki, Ra, Tigris, Easter Island, Fatu Hiva, Tucume and Galapagos, among others. The museum is open all year.