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Norway has 18 designated scenic routes called Nasjonale Turistveger (National Tourist Roads). They add up to 2,240 kilometres of roads that go along coastlines, over mountain passes and through landscapes the main highways skip.
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The Bergen Card covers public transport, museum entry, and a handful of restaurant discounts across Bergen and the surrounding region.
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The scenic route connects Geiranger to Ålesund via Trollstigen, a mountain pass with hairpin bends that is barely just drivable. It's exactly as dramatic as the tourism brochures claim. This is the most visited scenic route in Norway, and for good reason.
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Oslo has quite a few high quality specialty coffee shops, these are our selection of the best cafes in 2026 if you want really good coffee.
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Shops in Norway have shorter opening hours than most of Western Europe. Most shops, but not all, are closed on Sundays and public holidays. Read to see what shops are open and when.
Must see Attractions
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The Oslo Opera House is worth visiting even if you have no interest in opera. It's a five-minute walk from Oslo Central Station, and the roof may be the best first stop in the city.
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The largest art museum in Norway exhibiting some of the most iconic Norwegian paintings, including the original Scream oil painting and famous national romantic paintings like The Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord that define Norway's national identity, all in one building.
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The world's largest Munch collection, 13 floors of it, with free entry on Wednesday evenings and three versions of The Scream rotating throughout the day.
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Gustav Vigeland spent the last two decades of his life on this. 212 sculptures by one artist, spread across an 850-metre axis, all free, outdoors, and naked.
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The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (Norsk Folkemuseum) is a massive open-air time machine. Imagine if someone airlifted 160 buildings from every corner and century of Norway and dropped them into a forest on the Bygdøy peninsula. That is Norsk Folkemuseum.
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A preserved polar exploration ship with connected exhibition galleries that let visitors board the vessel and examine original expedition equipment and ship construction in close detail.
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A single-block granite column that compacts over a hundred interlocked human figures into the park's central, monumental focal point, offering close-up study of Vigeland's figure work.