The first stop was the Viling Museum, which houses archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad, Oseberg and the Borre mound cemetery. The museum displays the Viking Age Oseberg ship, Gokstad ship and Tune ship alongside sledges, beds, a (horse) cart, wood carving, tent components, buckets and other grave goods. It has many Viking ships that have been found, very intact. Its most famous ship is the completely whole Oseberg ship.
Next was the Fram Museum, which is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. Fram is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto syerdrup, Oscar Wisting and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912.
After the museums we tried...and believe me, we tried a lot, to reach the sky jumping slop. And beside the fact that they were working on the subway and we had to take I do not remember how many buses to get there...everything was under construction for an event that is going to take place in 2011.
After that disappointment we came back to the city and went to the famous park, Vigeland Sculpture Park. The park covers 80 acres (320,000 m2) and features 212 bronze and granite sculptures created by Gustave Vigeland. Vigeland personally sculpted every figure out of clay and individual craftsmen were contracted to fabricate the pieces into what they are today. These works of art reside along an 850 meter-long axis divided into six sections: The Main Gate, The Bridge, The Children’s Playground, The Fountain, The Monolith Plateau and the Wheel of Life. here are some of the sculptures:
We ended the day just walking around the city until the time came to take the next train to Stavanger.
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