Museum sights in Rjukan
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Norwegian Industrial Workers' Museum
This museum, 7km west of Rjukan, is in the Vemork power station, which was the world’s largest when completed in 1911. These days it honours the Socialist Workers’ Party, which reached its height of Norwegian activities in the 1950s. You won’t want to miss the 30-minute film If Hitler Had the Bomb, describing the epic events of war-time Telemark, nor the miniature power station in the main hall. There’s also an interesting exhibition about the worldwide race in the 1930s and ’40s to make an atom bomb. It consists of short films, touch screen exhibits, photos and dioramas.
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Tinn Museum
This quiet little folk museum, at the eastern end of town, traces rural Norwegian architecture from the 11th century to the early 1900s. Highlights include doorways of stave churches and old textiles.
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