The museum also has its a boat dock, its own bathing beach, and a Sculpture Park stretching along the shores of the fjord. Piano has also added a viewing tower which gives wide-open views across Oslo. The museum covers an area of 7,000 square metres on the headland of the new waterfront district of Tjuvholmen and is surrounded many new galleries, restaurants and a hotel.
The new museum will open to the public on 29 September 2012. The Astrup Fearnley Museet is a privately owned contemporary art museum which was founded in Oslo in 1993 to house and display the Astrup Fearnley Collection, the most important contemporary art collection in Norway. The Collection includes works by Norwegian and International Contemporary Art and focuses on individual works and artists, including major works by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Olafur Eliasson, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Cai Guo-Qiang, among many others.