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The sculpture park is Gustav Vigeland's life work. It was installed mainly in the period 1940-1949, but is nevertheless a result of over 40 years of work.
The center piece of the park is the Monolith. It is 17 m tall, and is carved out of a single piece of granite in a quarry near the Swedish border. It was then transported by sea to Oslo, and from there to the Vigeland Park, a formidable effort at that time. The carving of the Monolith is begun during the summer of 1929. They built a house around the granite pillar, and that was removed when the work on the Monolith was completed in 1944.
Vigeland was aided by three stone cutters Ivar Broe, Nils Jønsson and Karl Kjær.
The Park comprising over 200 sculptures in granite, bronze and wrought iron, all depicting the human life in its many phases. The Park is visited by more than 1 million each year.
A building nearby, houses the Vigeland Museum, where a few of the models of the sculptures are exhibited.
