The best things to do in Oslo with kids (but adults will love too)

Oslo is a wonderful, family friendly city with lots to enjoy. It’s a city for every season and we have rounded up our top 10 best things to do in Oslo with kids (but adults will love too). These include rainy day options which could also just be cold day options. If you’re looking for what to do in Oslo with kids then this post will give you all the best ideas for your time in Norway’s capital city.

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Explore the artwork at the International Museum of Children’s Art

The International Museum of Children’s Art is a wonderful idea. Displaying the art work of children from 180 countries it is a wonderful opportunity to see the world through their eyes.

Take children to inspire them and let them go home and create their own masterpieces. They also run workshops at Oslo airport so they are worth looking out for too.

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Find out more here.

See the amazing Viking ships – one of the great things to do in Oslo with kids

Our absolute top favourite thing to do in Oslo with kids, in fact in Oslo without kids.

It’s an amazing place where you have the opportunity see three Viking era burial ships, up close.

This is all set in a beautiful, custom built building in Bjørvika, Oslo which looks like it is almost a church and this is purposeful. This is somewhere to behold these beautiful structures with reverence and wonder.

There are skeletons to see, including one with a leg wound and hundreds of Viking artifacts from carts with runners to act as sledges through to materials and jewellery.

It is a wonderful place to see so much history first hand.

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Find out more about the Viking Ship Museum here and read our full review of a visit to the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo here.

Have fun at Tusenfryd Amusement Park

Tusenfryd (which translates as ‘thousand joys’) is an amusement park based about 20 kilometres outside of Oslo at Vinterbro, Norway.

There’s something here for all ages including rollercoasters for older kids. In the summer there is a great water park too.

Find our more about Tusenfryd amusement park here.

Discover the different creatures at Oslo Reptile Park

Oslo ReptilPark is an indoor zoo which has more than 100 animals and everything from snakes to lizards and frogs, spiders to monkeys and even crocodiles.

It’s a lovely warm retreat and if you visit on a Tuesday at 5pm you can see feeding time too.

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Find out more about Oslo’s Reptilpark here.

Be inspired by the sculptures at Frogner Park (and Vigeland Sculpture Park)

Frogner Park (and Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo

Oslo has so many lovely parks and Frogner Park is a wonderful one and is the largest in Oslo with Norway’s biggest playground near the tram stop.

It has a brilliant cafe in the grounds and there’s also an open-air pool for summer days.

The Museum of Oslo is based on the edge of the park and has a fantastic gift shop selling local items.

One of the big draws of the park though is Vigeland Sculpure Park. This is within Frogner Park and contains more than 200 sculptures by Gustav Vigeland.

All ages will enjoy looking around the sculptures which you can clamber over and interact with.

Look for some of the most famous – The Angry Boy, The Monolith and the epic The Wheel of Life.

Imagine a trip to the North Pole at the Fram Museum – things to do in Oslo with kids

The Fram Museum is a really special place. Giving an insight in to Norwegian polar exploration (and it’s close to the Viking Ship Museum so easy to combine the two on a day’s visit).

It focuses in particular on the explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen.

You can clamber onboard the Fram, the original polar exploration vessel and on the Gjøa, the first ship to transit the Northwest Passage in a three year journey.

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Find out more about the Fram Museum here.

Heat up with a family sauna session – another of the great things to do in Oslo with kids

Saunas are big business in Norway, they’re the perfect way to keep warm.

SALT is located right on the waterfront and contains four different saunas. The wooden constructions they are housed in are wonderful, inspired by the traditional Norwegian racks for drying fish.

They have one of the world’s biggest saunas and have lots going on there including DJs who come in to play music and a cafe for hot waffles before or after a session.

They also have lower temperature saunas which are better for kids.

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Find out more about SALT here.

Get interactive at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

The Museum of Science and Technology is a really fun, interactive place and great for all the family.

There are over 100 installations to enjoy and at least 25 exhibitions with different themes.

They have guided tours and an interactive science show that will have kids wanting to learn more.

This is a great place to spend a morning or afternoon and on weekends they have other events happening so check with them for what’s going on.

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Find out more about the museum here.

Find out about Norwegian life at the Norsk Folkemuseum

The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History or the Norsk Folkemuseum is a wonderful collection of buildings from all over Norway.

There are 160 buildings are at this open air museum which have been relocated from towns and villages all across the country. The most famous of which is the Gol Stave Church from around 1200.

There is also a museum here where you can see other artifacts and they have lots of events going on for kids at various times through the years.

Find out more about the museum here.