Sights in Jostedalsbreen
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Norwegian Glacier Museum
For the story on flowing ice and how it has sculpted the Norwegian landscape, visit this superbly executed museum, 3km inland from the ferry jetty.
The hands-on exhibits will delight children. You can learn how fjords are formed, see an excellent 20-minute multiscreen audiovisual presentation on Jostedalsbreen (so impressive that audiences often break into spontaneous applause at the end), wind your way through a tunnel that penetrates the mock-ice and even see the tusk of a Siberian woolly mammoth, which met an icy demise 30,000 years ago. There’s also an exhibit on the 5000-year-old ‘Ice Man’ corpse, which was found on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. The newest …
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Breheimsenteret Visitors Centre
The Breheimsenteret Visitors Centre, 34km up the valley from Lustrafjord, has a display that tells how glaciers were formed and how they sculpt the landscape. There's also a 20-minute film on the area and an exhibit on the girl Jostedalsrypa, the only villager to survive the Black Death. It also carries a worthwhile free pamphlet, Walking in Jostedal, that describes five short (one- to 2½-hour) walks.
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