Leaving Henrik Ibsen at Grand Hotel yesterday, we have followed in the footsteps of more famous Norwegians today.
We started at Bygdøy and two sea-farer museums, Fram, the ship which took Fridtjov Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen and more brave men as far north and as deep south you can get, and then the Kon Tiki-museum with exhibitions from Thor Heyerdahl's travels.
As a true Norwegian girl, I've heard about these brave men from early childhood. Today I bought a stack of books by and about Heyerdahl, Nansen, Sverdrup, Amundsen and also Cook, Scott and others. Now I want to learn more.
(After 29 years of marriage, Terje has now learned that he can't stop me from buying books, nor from reading them........)
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After lunch, we went to another part of Oslo, and the Munch Museum.
Madonna and Skrik were back, and could be seen among a wide range of Edward Munch's famous and more unknown works.
I haven't been to the Munch Museum in many, many years, and had to walk through the museum twice today to try to absorbe it all.
Favorite moments were when Marta stopped to tell us anecdotes about the paintings. She couldn't remember where she had been told them.....probably at school.
I didn't take any photos inside the Munch Museum, so these few from the bookshop will have to do.
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