The Museum

You are now standing in front of the entrance to the Vigeland Museum, which is Oslo's sculpture museum with dual tasks and ambitions. On one hand, the museum is dedicated to Gustav Vigeland. The core task is to manage Vigeland's legacy for the public and for posterity. Essentially, the museum's halls, as well as the apartment on the museum's 3rd floor, present Vigeland's art from his entire artistic career. In addition, the Vigeland Museum aims to be the most interesting exhibition site for art in the three-dimensional field. Primarily, the museum prioritizes artistic works and creations that can be linked to the three-dimensional field, i.e., sculpture and installation, as well as video-based art. The museum emphasizes presenting a breadth within this, both in terms of different periods, nationalities, artistic styles, and techniques. In the Fountain Hall stand the original plaster models for Vigeland's bronze fountain in the park: The middle group with six men carrying a large bowl, surrounded by twenty tree groups. The individually designed tree groups with figures tell the story of human life from cradle to grave. In the Monolith Hall stand several of the original plaster models for the 36 granite sculptures and the Monolith, which otherwise was modeled in three parts.