Baltics (7 of 7) - Oslo, Norway

I finally got to return to Norway over 20 years after going there on two 2-week-long business trips. Since my business had been much farther North in the country, I only got to take a couple of weekend trips to Oslo. This time we decided to visit the Gustav Vigeland Installation at Frogner Park and the Edvard Munch Museum. While waiting for our taxi, we sat here in this well-decorated area of a sidewalk, another obvious art installation.

The sculpture park was amazing! Upon entering the park you pass through black iron gates. Off in the distance, stairs lead to a giant granite monolith. 

Beyond a large expanse of lawn, there is a bridge flanked on both sides by many bronze figures with the typical greenish patina. Most of the figures were posed in strange positions.

It was fun watching people trying to emulate them for photographs.

This creepy looking baby (right), entitled "Angry Boy", was curiously flanked by a couple embracing as if they were his distraught parents.

There were 212 works constructed out of bronze, granite, and wrought iron. Even the gates (left) had intricate figures outlined in iron. It turns out that this bumpy granite artwork (right) is made up of 121 figures climbing on top of each other trying to reach the top.

The much-anticipated Munch museum was everything I'd hoped for. My daughter and I had been to the Munch exhibition at SFMOMA on a trip to San Francisco to see Tom Petty in 2017. Oslo is where Munch's "The Scream" is on display. People (even my daughter) were posing with it as if they were from the movie, "Home Alone".

There was a huge wall containing posters from past Munch exhibitions. What a historic journey of recognition!

I  enjoyed this one (left) because its subjects (workers) were captured in both painting and sculpture.

On our way out of Oslo, we spotted an old lighthouse in the Oslofjord (a waterway). Turns out it's called Dyna Fyr (est 1875), now a restaurant that may be booked for private parties of 20-30 people. It reminded me of Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, where, at Fort Worden State Park, you will find the lighthouse at Point Wilson and Alexander's Castle (an 1883 landmark).