Three days in Oslo and somehow most of them went to museums. The National Museum first — that building alone is worth the visit, before you even get to the collection. Then the Munch Museum, which is a completely different kind of intense, more than I expected walking in. And the Norwegian Museum of Architecture, tucked away and quiet, exactly the... More
Three days in Oslo and somehow most of them went to museums. The National Museum first — that building alone is worth the visit, before you even get to the collection. Then the Munch Museum, which is a completely different kind of intense, more than I expected walking in. And the Norwegian Museum of Architecture, tucked away and quiet, exactly the kind of place I like finding on a trip like this. In between all that, I kept ending up back at Theatercaféen — three times in three days, which wasn’t really planned, it just kept making sense. Open since 1900, right across from the National Theatre, still with that Vienna café feel: vaulted ceilings, warm light, a wall of nearly 90 portraits of regulars going back a century. I had the toast Skagen twice and the shrimp toast with trout roe once, and honestly could’ve gone either way each time. Some places just end up being where a trip circles back to. Less
