There is a single ship in this museum: the Fram, built to reach the North and South Poles despite the hostility of ice and snow. A smooth shell offering no hold, powerful interior reinforcements, a helm and propeller that could be raised in case of their getting caught in the ice-floes...technically speaking the ship was very sophisticated. Yet was it not also crucial to find people to man it who had faced danger, and who could accept the risks of the dangerously hostile polar cold?

This ski jump was built in 1892 on this hill overlooking Oslo's fjord, but it was only in 1952, at the time of the Winter Olympic Games that it became well-known. Modernized, it is still used for international competitions. A very popular place for a cross-country run also ends at the bottom of Holmenkillen. The view of Oslo and the fjord is superb from the top of the tower; and if you wish to improve on what you know about skiiing, take a look at the ski museum.

This museum was inaugurated in 1983 and is devoted to the most famous of all Norwegian dramatists. It is located in the apartment where the author of Peer Gynt (1867) and A Doll's House (1879) lived his last years (1895-1906), near the National Theatre where a number of his plays were presented, and which he directed.

Vigeland Park, located itself in the vast Froger Park northwest of Oslo, is protected by imposing wrought-iron gates. They are the work of Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943) who died a year before finishing this twenty-year-long project. Over the course of these decades he created and organized his world of giants, who are so close to us in their feelings and desires, while being so far from us by their physical form.