Oslo City Museum

The Museum of Oslo (Bymuseet) is the city museum of Oslo, housed in Frogner Manor in Frogner Park together with the Theatre Museum. Its exhibitions cover Oslo's history, urban development, the city's inhabitants and the issues facing the city today, and there is a café and a gift shop. It is run by Oslo Museum, which also operates the Theatre Museum, the Intercultural Museum and the Labour Museum.

Current exhibitions include OsLove – The Story of Oslo, which follows 1,000 years of the city's history from the Middle Ages to the present; From Oslo to Christiania, about the new city that grew up after much of old Oslo burned in August 1624; The Twenties, on life in 1920s Oslo with its innovation, jazz and women's liberation as well as inequality and poor housing; and Next stop: Oslo, a family exhibition about trams and the metro. A free audio guide is available in the Useeum app.

The museum is open Tuesday and Wednesday 11:00–16:00, Thursday 11:00–18:00 and Friday to Sunday 11:00–16:00; it is closed on Mondays. Over Christmas and New Year 2026/2027 it keeps regular hours up to and including 20 December, is closed from 21 to 28 December, opens 11:00–16:00 on 29 and 30 December, and is closed again from 31 December to 11 January, reopening with regular hours on 12 January. Admission is free for everyone on the first Thursday of the month.

Admission is NOK 130 for adults and NOK 65 for students, and children and young people under 26 enter free. On the first Thursday of every month admission is free for everyone. A ticket includes entry to both the Museum of Oslo and the Theatre Museum, which share Frogner Manor, so both can be seen on the same visit.

The museum is at Halvdan Svartes gate 58, 0266 Oslo, at Frogner Manor in Frogner Park. Take tram 12 or 15 or bus 20 to Frogner plass, or any metro line to Majorstuen. From the entrance gate a gravel slope leads up to the museum and its courtyard. Because the manor lies inside Frogner Park, a visit combines easily with the Vigeland sculptures in the same park.

The museum and its exhibitions are accessible by lift and/or step-free routes, there is an accessible toilet, and wheelchairs can be borrowed during the visit. A cloakroom with lockers for coats, bags and other belongings is available. Strollers are parked in the courtyard outside the entrance, but strollers for use inside the exhibitions can be borrowed, and there are baby-changing facilities. Free wifi is available to all guests.