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Norway from page 14

The North Cape is marked by On the other end of the nation is the business center
a visitor’s center as well as a and capital of Oslo. Its skyline is dominated by the City
globe-shaped location marker Hall at the end of the harbor. The building’s interior
and two unique sculptural works. walls are covered with murals and it even contains an art
One of these pieces is called collection. The main travel axis of the city runs parallel
Children of the World – this work to the end of the harbor and behind the City Hall, with
by Eva Rybakken features the the Royal Palace on one end and the Parliament building
sculpture of a mother and child on the other. Numerous museums proudly display the
facing north as the child points Norwegian history from before the time of the Vikings
to seven bronze and stone wheel- to the present. There is even a “Resistance” museum that
like disks. These disks were houses the relics of the Norwegian resistance movement
sculpted by children from seven during World War II, when the country was occupied by
different lands, aged between 8 the Germans. The city has built a heritage museum in
and 12, who visited the Cape in a large parklike setting that also boasts various period
1988. They depict Norway as structures from all over Norway, which have been
seen through the eyes of a child. Children of the World by Eva Rybakken, located at the North Cape dismantled and reassembled on the site.
*Source for population of Norway is CIA World
Factbook (July 2020 estimate)
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