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The Vigeland Sculpture Park |
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The Vigeland Park is the world's largest sculpture park made by a single artist, and is one of Norway's most popular tourist attractions. The park is open to visitors all year round. |
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| The unique sculpture park is Gustav Vigeland's lifework with more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and wrought iron. Vigeland was also in charge of the design and architechtural layout of the park. The Vigeland Park was mainly completed between 1939 and 1949. | ||
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Most of the sculptures are placed in five units along an 850 meter long axis: The Main gate, the Bridge with the Children's playground, the Fountain, the Monolith plateau and the Wheel of Life. |
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The Vigeland Museum is the result of a unique contract between Gustav Vigeland and the city of Oslo signed in 1921: The Municipality agreed to build a studio, residence and future museum for the artist and his work, and in return Vigeland donated nearly all his works, previous and future, to the city. |
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The museum, which opened in 1947, houses almost Vigeland's entire production; sculptures in plaster, granite, bronze, marble, works in wrought iron, thousands of drawings, woodcuts and woodcarvings. In the museum you will find the original plasters to his famous busts and monuments, in addition to the plaster models to the sculptures in the Vigeland Park. |
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Sinnataggen, the little Angry Boy. In spite of his size the little boy is one of the most popular figures in the park. |
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The Vigeland Park is a big orgy of nude people having sex, with the climax: The Monolith Plateau, where a column rises proudly 14 metres into the air. Carved from one block of granite, the Monolith consists of 121 figures, climbing together, forming a giant phallus. |
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