• Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula situated on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Administratively, Bygdøy is part of the borough of Frogner. It historically...
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    Frogner (redirect from Bygdøy-Frogner)
    Antarctic expedition. The royal estate of Bygdøy kongsgård and the Oscarshall palace are also located here. Bygdøy has several public beaches and is a popular...
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    Bygdøy Royal Estate (Norwegian: Bygdøy kongsgård), also known as the Bygdø Royal Farm, is a Kongsgård estate and manor house that occupies a large part...
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    Viking Ship Museum (Oslo) (category Bygdøy)
    The Viking Ship Museum (Norwegian: Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It will be temporarily closed from September...
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    Bygdøy Church (Norwegian: Bygdøy kirke) is a church that was built in a fan plan in 1968 on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. It replaced the Bygdøy...
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    ship and some of its contents are displayed at the Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Excavation of the ship from the Oseberg...
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    Viking ship exhibited in the Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) in Bygdøy, Oslo. The Tune ship is of the karve, a small type of longship with...
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    ancient and medieval objects, Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset) at Bygdøy, the Coin Cabinet (Myntkabinettet) and Ethnographic Museum (Etnografisk...
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    became a royal residence in 1949. Bygdøy Royal Estate, the official summer residence, is situated in Oslo. Bygdøy has been under extensive restoration...
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    Kon-Tiki Museum (category Bygdøy)
    The Kon-Tiki Museum (Norwegian: Kon-Tiki Museet) is a museum in the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition...
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    municipitality of Oslo. It is located west of Lindøya and southeast of Bygdøy. The island has more than 180 weekend cottages. The first element is nakke...
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    Norsk Folkemuseum (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History), at Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts...
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    to the 9th century. The ship is the largest in the Viking Ship Museum in Bygdøy, Oslo. Oseberghaugen, the Oseberg burial mound at Oseberg near Tønsberg...
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    on 5 April 1954. King Haakon VII fell in his bathroom at the Bygdøy Royal Estate (Bygdøy kongsgård) in July 1955. This fall, which occurred just a month...
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    Gol Stave Church (category Bygdøy)
    museum and is now located in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. The church has been dendrochronologically dated to from...
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    Fram Museum (category Bygdøy)
    story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. Fram Museum is in an area with several other museums including...
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    Christian Skredsvig. Frogner Church by night Frogner Church as seen from Bygdøy Allè Old postcard I Old postcard II "Frogner kirke". frognerkirke.no. Retrieved...
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    park in Norway, with a large collection of sculptures by Gustav Vigeland. Bygdøy is a large green area, commonly called the Museum Peninsula of Oslo. The...
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    English in 1879. In 1881 he founded the world's first open-air museum, at Bygdøy, located next to his summer residence near Oslo (back then known as Christiania)...
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    arch-deanery, Oslo, Norway City of Oslo, central part: Oslo Cathedral (Domkirken) Bygdøy Fagerborg Frogner Gamlebyen Grønland Kampen Lovisenberg Old Aker (Gamle...
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  • Ladegaardsfjordene. This stems from older times, when Bygdøy was an island, named Ladegaardsøen. Bygdøy later became a peninsula due to post-glacial rebound...
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    Kongsseteren, the royal lodge overlooking Oslo, and at the summer residence at Bygdøy. She is described as reserved as a public person but energetic and with...
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    Lighthouse (Norwegian: Dyna fyr) is a coastal lighthouse on a reef south of Bygdøy, in Oslofjord, Oslo, Norway. It was established in 1875 and automated in...
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    Huk, Norway (category Bygdøy)
    is a parkland and a sandy beach (Hukodden) at the furthest south of the Bygdøy peninsula west of the city center of Oslo, Norway. The area was acquired...
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    in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (No: Norsk folkemuseum) at Bygdøy. The pharmacy was rebuilt in 1986, and refurbished to a restaurant in year...
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    Oscarshall (category Bygdøy)
    Palace is a maison de plaisance located in the small fjord Frognerkilen on Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. The palace was built from 1847 to 1852 by the Danish architect...
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    Christen Sveaas through the Norwegian company AS Holding. Bagatelle lies in Bygdøy Allé 3, and has been situated there since 1932. Originally, the building...
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  • overview Formed 1 December 1968 Jurisdiction Government of Norway Headquarters Bygdøy allé 2, Oslo, Norway Employees 224 (2013) Annual budget 26.2 billion kroner...
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    Ladegaardsfjordene. This stems from older times, when Bygdøy was an island, named Ladegaardsøen. Bygdøy later became a peninsula due to post-glacial rebound...
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    For most of his later political career, Quisling lived in a mansion on Bygdøy in Oslo that he called "Gimle," after the place in Norse mythology where...
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