Oslo City Museum, Frogner Hovedgård. Photo: Fredrik Birkelund/Oslo Museum

Oslo City Museum is now merged with two other museums in Oslo, Intercultural Museum and Oslo Theatre Museum. The new merged museum is called Oslo Museum.

Oslo City Museum, situated at Frogner Manor in Gustav Vigelands park (Frognerparken), is a museum of cultural history with one of the largest collections of paintings in Norway. The history of Oslo is illustrated by thematic exhibitions showing, among other things, the development of Oslo and the city's cultural and commercial activities.

In the museum you can watch a 15 minute long DVD-program, entitled "Oslo During 1000 years", presenting the history of Oslo in English.

The main building at Frogner Manor, dating back to approximately 1790, contains historical interiors.

Opening hours for the Museum:
Monday closed
Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 4pm

July - august guided tours in English Saturday - Sunday 2.30 pm
1 - 18th of July guided tours Tuesday - Friday at 2.30 pm

Free entry!

Public transport: Tram no 12 Majorstuen to Frogner Plass.

Welcome to Oslo City Museum!

There is also an exhibition featuring the history of Oslo, in the Old Town Hall, Christiania Torv 1, next to Akershus Festning and The City Hall.

At Intercultural Museum, Tøyenbekken 5 there is an exhibition called "Our sacred space" that shows the diaspora situation of six world religions in Oslo, Norway: Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Last update 10.02.2009