Best Museums in Oslo

Oslo has 23 museums worth knowing about — from world-famous collections to smaller specialist institutions that most visitors miss entirely. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, Oslo Pass eligibility, and honest advice on which are worth your time.

Fram Museum
4.8
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Fram Museum

Go aboard the world's strongest wooden ship and relive Norway's heroic polar expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.

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Viking Ship Museum
4.8
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Viking Ship Museum

Home to the Oseberg and Gokstad ships — the world's best-preserved Viking vessels. Currently closed for reconstruction, reopening as the Museum of the Viking Age in 2027.

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National Museum
4.7
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National Museum

Norway's largest art museum — successor to the original National Gallery — home to Munch's The Scream and 7,000 years of Nordic and European art.

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Norwegian Resistance Museum
4.7
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Norwegian Resistance Museum

A powerful museum inside Akershus Fortress documenting Norway's Nazi occupation, the resistance movement, and the liberation of 1945.

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Munch Museum
4.6
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Munch Museum

Home to The Scream and 28,000 works by Edvard Munch — Oslo's most iconic museum in a striking 13-floor waterfront building.

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Norwegian Folk Museum
4.6
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Norwegian Folk Museum

Scandinavia's largest open-air museum with 160 historic buildings, a medieval stave church, and costumed staff bringing history to life.

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Emanuel Vigeland Museum
4.6
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Emanuel Vigeland Museum

A dark mausoleum where every surface is covered in Emanuel Vigeland's Vita fresco — thousands of intertwined figures in one of Scandinavia's most unusual art experiences.

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Kon-Tiki Museum
4.5
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Kon-Tiki Museum

See the original Kon-Tiki raft and the Ra II — Thor Heyerdahl's legendary ocean voyages brought to life on Oslo's Bygdøy peninsula.

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Holmenkollen Ski Museum & Jump Tower
4.5
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Holmenkollen Ski Museum & Jump Tower

Ride the lift to the top of Oslo's iconic ski jump for panoramic city views — plus the world's oldest ski museum with 5,000 years of skiing history.

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Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
4.5
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Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

Oslo's best family museum — 50+ interactive exhibitions on science, technology, oil, aviation, and Norwegian industrial history.

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Holocaust Center (HL-Senteret)
4.5
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Holocaust Center (HL-Senteret)

Norway's dark WWII chapter documented — 773 Norwegian Jews were deported and murdered. Free memorial museum in the former Nazi residence Villa Grande.

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Vigeland Museum
4.4
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Vigeland Museum

Gustav Vigeland's preserved studio — original plaster models for all the Vigeland Park sculptures, 200m from the park itself.

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Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
4.4
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Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art

Norway's leading private contemporary art museum in a landmark Renzo Piano building on the Tjuvholmen waterfront.

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Nobel Peace Center
4.3
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Nobel Peace Center

The official home of the Nobel Peace Prize — every laureate since 1901 profiled in depth, from Marie Curie and Mandela to Malala.

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Henie Onstad Art Centre
4.3
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Henie Onstad Art Centre

Norway's premier modern art collection on the Oslofjord shore — combined with Sonja Henie's three Olympic gold medals and her Hollywood legacy.

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Cultural History Museum
4.3
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Cultural History Museum

Oslo's Historical Museum at the University — Norway's finest Viking-age gold and jewellery alongside Egyptian mummies, medieval church art and Norse antiquities.

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Ibsen Museum
4.2
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Ibsen Museum

Step inside the preserved apartment where Henrik Ibsen lived and wrote until his death in 1906 — frozen in time, exactly as he left it.

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Armed Forces Museum
4.2
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Armed Forces Museum

Norway's military history from Viking age to the Cold War — free inside Akershus Fortress, with tanks and aircraft on outdoor display.

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Natural History Museum
4.2
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Natural History Museum

Oslo's Natural History Museum at Tøyen: dinosaur skeletons, Arctic wildlife, Norwegian geology and whale bones — plus the free Botanical Garden on the same campus.

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Norwegian Maritime Museum
4.1
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Norwegian Maritime Museum

A thousand years of Norway's relationship with the sea — from Viking boats to modern shipping — on the scenic Bygdøy peninsula.

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Oslo City Museum
4
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Oslo City Museum

Oslo's complete history from Bronze Age to modern capital — free entry in the beautiful Frogner Manor, right next to Vigeland Sculpture Park.

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National Museum – Architecture
4
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National Museum – Architecture

The architecture branch of the National Museum, housed in a historic 1830 bank building near Akershus Fortress — dedicated to Norwegian architectural history from medieval stave churches to Snøhetta's Opera House. Free admission.

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Intercultural Museum
3.9
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Intercultural Museum

Free museum in Oslo's most multicultural neighbourhood — exploring Norway's immigrant heritage and the diversity that defines modern Oslo.

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