Outside Frognerparken's southwestern corner, this museum was built by the city in the 1920s as a home and studio for Gustav Vigeland in exchange for the donation of a significant proportion of his life's work upon his death. It contains his early collection of statuary and monuments to public figures, as well as plaster molds, woodblock prints and sketches, and highlights his preoccupation with conveying vulnerability and emotions, from love and fear to anguish and loneliness.
When he died in 1943, Vigeland's ashes were deposited in the tower and the museum was opened to the public four years later. Sketching (pencil only) is encouraged and you can borrow sketching boards.
