It includes the manor house which is the seat of Oslo Museum, the nearby Henriette Wegner Pavilion, the Vigeland installation of sculptures (Norwegian: Vigelandsanlegget) created by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, Frogner Baths, Frogner stadion, Frognerparken Café, the restaurant Herregårdskroen and the largest collection of roses in the country with 14,000 plants of 150 species.

Frogner Park is the most popular tourist attraction in Norway, with between 1 and 2 million visitors each year,[5] and is open to the public at all times.

Around one square kilometer remained when the City of Oslo bought the property in 1896 to secure space for further urban development.

Norwegian architect Henrik Bull designed the grounds and some of the buildings erected in Frogner Park for the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition.

[8][9] The municipal government subsequently decided that Gustav Vigeland's fountain and all his monuments and statues should be placed in the park.

The area was ready for Gustav Vigeland fountain in 1924 and the final plan was released in 1932 by the city-council.

Most of the statues depict people engaging in various typically human pursuits, such as running, wrestling, dancing, hugging, holding hands and so on.

The ceiling is a painted replica in miniature of the dome of the Pantheon, Rome, that makes the room appear larger.

The buildings in Danish country house style were built in the 1750s when Hans Jacob Scheel took over the property.

After Bernt Anker, who was Norway's richest man, took over the estate in 1790, the buildings were further extended, and the manor house became one of the most important meeting places of Norwegian high society.

It was built in a romantic garden style that had replaced the baroque ideal in the late 18th century.

[11] The sculpture installation was, as part of Frogner Park, protected under the Heritage Act on 13 February 2009 under the name Frogner Park and the Vigeland installation (Norwegian: Frognerparken og Vigelandsanlegget), enshrining its name Vigelandsanlegget in law.

The Vigeland installation's granite and wrought iron Main Gate also serves as the eastern entrance to Frogner Park from Kirkeveien.

From there an 850 m (2,790 ft) long axis leads west through the Bridge to the Fountain and the Monolith, and ends with the Wheel of Life.

Construction of the massive monument began in 1924 when Gustav Vigeland modelled it in clay in his studio in Frogner.

[13] In the autumn of 1927 a block of granite weighing several hundred tons was delivered to the park from a quarry in Halden.

The Monolith was first shown to the public at Christmas 1944, and 180,000 people crowded into the wooden shed to get a close look at the creation.

The Monolith towers 14.12 metres (46.32 ft) high and is composed of 121 human figures rising towards the sky.

The latest addition to the park is a statue titled Surprised (Overrasket), originally completed in plaster in 1942 only months before one of the models for the work, Austrian refugee Ruth Maier, was sent to Auschwitz and murdered.