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The National Opera House (Nytt Operahus) is an opera house built in the harbour area of Bjorvika, Oslo at a cost of NKr3.3bn. Statsbygg, the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property, oversaw the project, which has been billed as the biggest boost for culture in Norway since the medieval Nidaros Cathedral was built in Trondheim. With a total cost of Ł420m, its design won an international competition and was opened by King Harold of Norway in April 2008.

The opera house is the first element in the planned transformation of this area of the city. In 2010, the heavy traffic besides the building will be moved into a tunnel under the fjord. Due to its size and aesthetics, the opera house stands apart from other buildings in the area. The marble-clad roofscape forms a large public space in the landscape of the city and the fjord.


The opera house includes four sections. The public area, located in the west wing of the building, includes a 1,350-seat horseshoe main auditorium, Scene 2, a rehearsal room and a natural-lit foyer. The stage area constitutes a main stage, an understage, and side and back stages. All the elements of the main stages are moveable and adjustable for different opera needs.

The four-storey production section includes workshops, stores, rehearsal rooms, cloakrooms, offices, audition rooms and every facility necessary to produce an opera or ballet. The final section, the large horizontal and sloping white stone roof, remains open to the public.

The materials have been carefully chosen for their specific weight, colour, texture and temperature, which are vital for the design. White stone was chosen for the carpet, while timber was used for the wave wall and metal for the factory. About 35,000 Italian marble slabs were used to cover a 25,000m˛ area, including the roof, forecourt and foyer floor.

The ice green-coloured granite stone wraps the north wall and the zone down towards the sea. The foyer has a colossal wall of oak, while most of the main auditorium is also clad in oak. Aluminium sheets with a pattern to display light and shadow cover the production section, stage tower and technical tower. The glass facade also provides luminance over the foyer.

To embellish the interior, the opera house has been decorated with crafted woodwork and $12m art works.

This particular hood ornament cost well over $35,000.00 U.S dollars. It's an amazing piece of Art.

I highly recommend you seeing this museum if you love old classic cars. Black Hawk California, not to far from Dublin Ca. Black Hawk is a very influential neighborhood.

They keep it very dark on the show room floors with low lighting overhead. All the walls have been covered with a middle to dark gray colored carpet.

Don't plan on bringing a tripod, they won't allow it. I guess the museum has a contract with a professional photography outfit and they have all rights.

You can take flash photography if you like, but it's much better without the flash. You'll have to use a very small aperture lens because like I say, it's somewhat dark on the show room floors.

I took this photo with my Minolta Maxxum 8000i Film Camera and I'm scanning the photo in with my HP 5300c ScanJet Scanner.

These shots were taken at the Black Hawk Classic Car Museum. This just isn't any kind of car museum, it's all old classic cars.

Two story building, housing a full assortment of old classic cars. This is one of the greatest Collections of classic cars brought altogether in one museum in my opinion.

I believe the museum shows 100 or more classic cars ever made at any given time. Most of the cars are a permanent resident and every so often they switch some out for different classic cars.