Aker Brygge & Tjuvholmen

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What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Aker Brygge & Tjuvholmen and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The National Museum6 min walk476 m
• Akershus Fortress6 min walk523 m
• The Royal Palace & Karl Johan10 min walk834 m
• The Oslo Opera House17 min walk1.4 km
• The Munch Museum19 min walk1.6 km
• Grünerløkka27 min walk2.3 km
• Vigeland Sculpture Park7 min taxi2.5 km
• Holmenkollen ski jump21 min taxi6.9 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 5.Aker Brygge & the harbour — The buzzing waterfront boardwalk of the old shipyard — seafood restaurants, a marina, ice-cream in hand and the ferries to the islands gliding out. The heart of summer Oslo; stroll it round to the Astrup Fearnley museum and the little Tjuvholmen beach at the tip.
• 6.The Bygdøy museums — A green peninsula of world-class museums reached by a little fjord ferry — the polar ship Fram, Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft, and the Norwegian folk museum's old stave church and timber farms. A brilliant, salt-aired half-day of Viking and exploration history; the ferry ride is half the fun.
• 11.Astrup Fearnley Museum — A stunning Renzo Piano-designed museum under sail-like glass roofs at the tip of Tjuvholmen — bold contemporary art (Koons, Hirst) and a little sculpture park and beach on the fjord beside it. As much about the building and setting as the art; a lovely spot on a bright day.
• 12.A floating sauna & fjord swim — The most Oslo thing you can do — book a wood-fired floating sauna on the harbour, sweat with a fjord view, then plunge straight into the cold, clean water off the deck. Blissful and bracing year-round (yes, even in winter); the harbour baths at Sørenga are free in summer.
• 17.The Nobel Peace Center — The story of the Nobel Peace Prize and its laureates, in a handsome old station by the harbour — thoughtful, moving, and a good rainy hour.
• 19.Hovedøya island — A short ferry to the nearest fjord island — meadows, a ruined monastery, swimming coves and picnic spots. The Oslo summer, ten minutes from the quay.