Emanuel Vigeland Museum, also known as Emanuel Vigeland Museum and Mausoleum or Tomba Emmanuelle, is a museum and mausoleum in Oslo created by Emanuel Vigeland. The building is best known for its dark barrel-vaulted main chamber, where the fresco cycle Vita covers the walls and ceiling. Originally planned as a museum, it was transformed in the 1940s into Vigeland’s own mausoleum, giving the interior its unusually sombre and enclosed character.
In Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole (2026), the mausoleum is used as a meeting place for powerful figures, including police officers, who gather there wearing cloaks and masks. The location’s dark interior, echoing space, and enclosed vaulted chamber give the scene a distinctly secretive and ominous setting.
Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole (2026)
Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole
Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is very closely tied to Oslo, and the city appears to have been used as a real dramatic environment rather than just a generic Scandinavian backdrop.
Exit Villa
Exit Villa is in Olsenbanden Junior, Taxi, Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen, Tina & Bettina: The Movie, Mammon, Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder, Hvite gutter and Exit.
Vigeland Sculpture Park
Vigeland Sculpture Park appears in Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole, The Snowman, Himmel og helvete, Oslo, 31. august, Elling, and many more.
Majorstuen Station
Majorstuen Station appears in Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole (2026), the Netflix adaptation of Nesbø’s Harry Hole universe, which was filmed extensively in Oslo.
Frognerbadet
Frognerbadet is in Olsenbanden møter Kongen & Knekten, Frida: Straight from the Heart, Stuperen, Oslo, August 31st, Beatles, Hvite gutter and Detective Hole.
Valkyrien Restaurant
Valkyrien Restaurant has appeared in Elling (2001) and O’ Horten (2007). In both films, its old-fashioned interior is used as a familiar Oslo restaurant.
Havens Kolonial
In Max Manus, Havens Kolonial is used for the Plasskafeen. Gregers Gram and Edvard Tallaksen are seen coming from Hertzbergs gate before entering the café.
Idioten
Idioten appears in Oslo, August 31st (2011). The park is used for one of the film’s most important conversations, in which Anders meets his old friend Thomas.
Wilhelms gate Steps
Wilhelms gate Steps appears in The Worst Person in the World (2021). The stairway is used in one of the film’s Oslo street sequences.
Louises gate
Louises gate appears in The Worst Person in the World (2021), where it is used in one of the film scenes. It is also the location used for the poster image