Oslo City Museum (Oslo Bymuseum)
Eighteenth-century manor house holding the city's history museum, photo archive and art collection.
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This guide to the Oslo City Museum at Frogner Manor in Oslo starts with a single engraved sword from the museum's collection and the family who carried it. It follows the Lædels, four generations of executioners in old Christiania, through courtrooms, neighbours and superstition in the seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds. Best heard inside the manor's rooms, once a rich merchant's summer house.
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