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One of the artistic highlights of Norway is the Sculpture Park in Oslo. The Vigeland park is located at the western end of Oslo in Frogner, and can easily be reached with public transport. The Park covers an area of 80 acres and contains 212 sculptures with more than 600 figures, all modeled in full size.

The sculptures are all modeled in full size by Gustav Vigeland without the assistance of pupils or other artists. Vigeland also designed the architectural setting and the layout of the grounds. Gustav Vigeland who is probably rarely known in the rest of the world worked here and most of his work is displayed here in the sculpture-park and a museum.

The sculptures are placed on an 850 meter long axis divided into 5 main units: Main Entrance, The Bridge with the children’s playground, The Fountain, The Monolith Plateau and The Wheel of Life. The park culminates in the impressive Monolith sculpture, a chaotic 17m tall tangle of interlocking human bodies, carved from a single granite block.
This wonderful park is a must-see for the interesting sculpture that makes artistic and often humorous statements about the cycle of life, but is a pleasant visit if even for a stroll to enjoy the water, the gardens, the ambiance of appreciative visitors relaxing here and there. For more photos click here

Aurland is a small town in Sogn og Fjordane, one of the larger fjords on the West Coast of Norway. The city is three hours drive from Bergen, Norway’s second largest city. The place has attracted people from all over the world.

It was also called ”640m over Aurland and 20120km from Tokyo”.

The landscape there is so fantastic. There’s a small parking area for 2 buses and 10 cars, to help keep the place pure. The construction is a bridge, that everyone can  go onto as if walking in the air.

The structure is 4 m wide, 30m long and 9m high out at the very end. To make the place even more dramatic people can come out in the air. The pine trees are kept and tourists can walk out into the open space through the treetops, which dramatise the experience of nature and the larger landscape room.

This wonderful bird-watching tower is situated in old leftover road bend in Norway with a spectacular view from the wild ocean and mountains of Eggum in the west.

 

After taking off from the main road, you pass through the site to reach the parking space. From east to west the 60m long-wall is cut into the ground and separates the parking area from the rest area, the sun and the view.

 

The rest area is constructed to give space for several buss loads of people. At the same time comfort and quiet is given to other travelers resting and eating. The sheltering wall is made of a steel construction covered with wooden laths and boards.

 

The horizontal direction of the wooden laths continues, and with cuts and folds, they are turned into tables and benches.

 

Petter Dass Museum in Norway is not just an ordinary museum. It’s a project, which include a landscape plan (park), parking facilities and a service building. All of these are creep into an old rock surface.

The museum is awesome, because the building is integrated with the landscape. The transparent walls of the museum ground floor emphasize this relationship between the landscape and the building. At both ends there’re large glass surfaces, offering views towards a church and the blue sky.

The museum itself represents the present and links Petter Dass’s achievements to our time, 300 years after his death.

Petter Dass is one of Norways most important and beloved National poets. He was also the Vicar at Alstahaug church from 1689 until his death in 1707.