Gaute and Jill and their boys took us to the Folk Museum. It had a number of exhibitions - both indoors and out. Aaste is standing on the porch of a storage house from the early 1800s (I think.)
We had a lovely sunny day for our main sight-seeing day in Oslo.
Both Aaste and I were pretty impressed by the Vigeland Sculpture Park.
The park features 212 bronze and granite sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland. Vigeland personally sculpted every figure out of clay and individual craftsmen were contracted to fabricate the pieces into what they are today.
I am not usually a great fan of sculpture - but I really liked Vigeland's work - perhaps because of the combination of realism and fantasy or imagination. see http://www.museumsnett.no/vigelandmuseet/eindex.htm
The Viking Ship Museum was also a highlight of the day. Our tour guide made it quite clear to us that there is NO evidence that the Vikings EVER wore helmets with horns and she asked us to spread the word that the Vikings DID NOT where helmets with horns!
Aaste took a ton of pictures of artifacts in the Viking Ship Museum. I guess that means she was somewhat interested. She doesn't mind the museum trips, but absolutely hates just wandering around a city, which of course I love.
The Kon Tiki museum celebrates the adventures and life of Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002). Heyerdahl sailed this raft from Peru to Polynesia with 5 or 6 other men in 1947. If you want to know the significance of this (and it's kind of interesting actually) see: http://www.kon-tiki.no/Ny/Dok_eng/e_start.html
