Vestre gravlund in Oslo is in Ullern district. It was originally built on the properties of the farms Volvat, Møllerløkken and Nedre Borgen. Monolitveien separates the cemetery and Frognerparken (with Vigelandsanlegget). Skøyenveien runs on one edge of the cemetery, and Sørkedalsveien on the last two. Vestre gravlund was inaugurated September 30, 1902 - it has been expanded several times, the last being in 1980. With its (243 dekar) 60,05 acres (US/UK), it is Norway's largest cemetery.

Vestre Gravlund chapel in the middle of the cemetery was inaugurated in 1902. In addition, there are two chapels associated with Vestre crematorium (Sørkedalsveien 64) located in the northern part of the cemetery (near Borgen Metro Station) - here is also a large parking lot. The first cremation took place in 1909, and a total of 170,000 cremations were undertaken here. The crematorium itself was closed in 2009, when Alfaset crematorium took over all cremation activities in Oslo. The two chapels, Gamle kapell (Old chapel) and Nye kapell (New chapel), are still in use.

Here is an anonymous Children memorial grove; it is at approx. 0,247acre (US/UK) (ca. 1 dekar) and inspired by Astrid Lindgren's description of Kirsebærdalen in the book "The Brothers Lionheart". It has been designed with children's playfulness and curiosity as a premise and should be a place where children in mourning can be children. The sculpture "Midt i naturen" (In the middle of nature) shows two young children sitting on a stump and holding around each other. In the perennial beds the flowers can be picked and placed in flower holders. The flowers are chosen, among other things, to attract butterflies. Candle houses (lyshus) and teddy bears (bamsehus) are designed as playhouses. The memorial was opened in the fall of 2016 and the first coffin was put down in 2017.

Vestre gravlund has an international war cemetery where soldiers who fell during World War II are buried. Poland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have graves in the field. In the Dutch section also former concentration camp prisoners who were taken out by Folke Bernadotte's "White Buses", those who died during transport were buried here. There is also a small area for unknown Norwegian soldiers.

It is a separate field with 102 fallen soldiers from the Commonwealth who fell during World War II, Britain (91), Canada (8), Australia (2) and Norway (1). These served in the Army (51), Air Force (47), Navy (3) and Merchant Navy (1). Here are among the five British soldiers from Operation Freshman at Rjukan in 1942, who survived the plane crash, but were later executed by the Germans. Here are also 20 British soldiers who died on 10 May 1945 in an accident while approaching Gardermoen military airport.

In addition, there is a separate field with 187 Soviets that had previously been buried in 13 local cemeteries and 2 fortresses - they were re-buried in 1953 at Vestre gravlund. They were moved from the counties of Akershus (3 cemeteries / 99 dead), Vestfold (2 cemeteries + 2 fortresses / 76 dead). The remaining 12 came from cemeteries in Buskerud (4), Hedmark (3), Telemark (2), Østfold (2) and Oppland (1).

In 1939, Urnelunden on the so-called Volvathaugen, near the eastern corner, was laid out in a hilly and natural terrain with natural stones for headstones - it has become a distinctive field in the cemetery. Det norske misjonsselskap (The Norwegian missionary company) and Frelsesarmeen (the Salvation Army) have their own fields. Near the parking lot at Borgen Metro Station, there is a field where several graves are related to the World War II resistance battle, where among others Gunnar Sønsteby (1918 - 2012), as the most famous, is buried. Here is also the grave of Arne Christiansen, the first Norwegian to fall into international military operations after World War II (Korea 1952).