Tjuvholmen
Waterfront district on a former execution islet and shipyard, with a sculpture park and art museum.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Tjuvholmen in Oslo begins at Louise Bourgeois's sculpture Eyes on a small grassy hillock, and at a double reading of those shapes. It reaches back to the eighteenth-century islet that gave the district its name, and to the shipyards that swallowed it. Renzo Piano and Oslo's Fjord City plan turn up along the way. Best heard standing in front of the sculpture.
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