Works at the water's edge
Sculptures by international artists set across grass and rock right on the fjord.
Helge Høifødt — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Michal Klajban — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kvikk — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Helge Høifødt — CC BY-SA 3.0
Not on its own. It is a short stop within a waterfront walk, and thirty minutes covers it. If you are going to the adjoining Astrup Fearnley Museum you are there anyway.
June to August. The site is fully exposed on the fjord, and wind and cold make it uncomfortable outside summer. In summer the small adjacent beaches come into use and the whole area is livelier.
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A small sculpture park at the tip of the Tjuvholmen peninsula on Oslo's waterfront, adjoining the Astrup Fearnley Museum of contemporary art designed by Renzo Piano. The whole area is a recent development project: it was industrial land and docks, rebuilt over the last two decades as a residential and cultural quarter on the water. The park is part of that design rather than an addition to it. It shows sculptures by international artists set across grass and rock right at the water's edge, and walking among them is open and free at all hours. Beside it is a small urban beach that Oslo residents use in summer. The value here is as much the location as the works: you are on the edge of the fjord with an open view over the water and the boats, a short walk from the opera house, the city hall and Akershus fortress. Combine them into one waterfront route.
Sculptures by international artists set across grass and rock right on the fjord.
Industrial land and docks turned into a cultural district on the water in two decades.
Combine it with Astrup Fearnley, the opera house and Akershus in a single walk.
Tjuvholmen, the waterfront, Oslo