Villa Grande

Villa Grande is a property on Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. The main building is located on top of a hill, raised above the surrounding residential buildings.

Photo: Taske, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Viking Ship Museum and Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.

Viking Ship Museum

Museum

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The Viking Ship Museum is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It is temporarily closed from September 2021 until 2027. It is part of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo, and houses three Viking era burial ships that were found as part of archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad, Oseberg and the Borre mound cemetery. Viking Ship Museum is situated 730 metres northeast of Villa Grande.

Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

Museum

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Norsk Folkemuseum, at Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country. Norwegian Museum of Cultural History is situated 1 km north of Villa Grande.

Kon-Tiki Museum

Museum

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The Kon-Tiki Museum is a museum in the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. Kon-Tiki Museum is situated 1¼ km northeast of Villa Grande.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trøndelag, Norsk Folkemuseum and West Oslo.

Trøndelag, Norsk Folkemuseum

Locality

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Trøndelag, Norsk Folkemuseum is a locality.

West Oslo

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Western Oslo comprises Oslo west of Ring 1, southwest of Highway 168 and south of Ring 3. In addition the article contains the western suburbs of Oslo that are administratively part of Akershus county.

Vækerø

Suburb

Photo: Helge Høifødt, Public domain.

Vækerø is a suburb.

Villa Grande

Type: Public building
Description: villa in Oslo, Norway
Categories: villa, heritage site, building, and government building
Location: Oslo Municipality, Oslo, Oslo region, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

59.89909° or 59° 53′ 57″ north

Longitude

10.67807° or 10° 40′ 41″ east

Open location code

9FFGVMXH+J6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 134403997

OpenStreetMap feature

building=civic

Wikidata ID

Q3848659

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Swedish—“Villa Grande” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Villa Grande”
Esperanto: “Villa Grande”
French: “villa Grande”
French: “Villa Grande”
German: “Villa Grande”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Villa Grande”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Villa Grande”
Norwegian: “Villa Grande”
Swedish: “Villa Grande”

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