Oslo to inaugurate national memorial
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Oslo to inaugurate national memorial to July 22 terrorist attacks

The “Maintenance” monument consists of a blue steel frame that supports a huge stone mosaic of a wading bird. On Sunday, the national memorial to the terrorist attacks of July 22, 2011, will be inaugurated in Oslo’s government district.

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Artist Matias Faldbakken emphasizes that the scaffolding is an important part of the monument, as a symbol of the reconstruction required after the devastation from Anders Behring Breivik's bomb in the government building.

"It's worth noting that the entire reconstruction - all the construction work - is a result of the bomb. That's important. For 15 years this has been a construction site - and a crater - in the heart of Oslo. The massive steel structure becomes a kind of gigantic fragment from those years," he tells NTB.

More than 300,000 hand-carved stones have been used and the idea is that the many small pieces are united into one large image.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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