Pyramiden Museum |
Pyramiden, Norway (Svalbard - Spitzbergen) |
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Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
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Status from 02/2018
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Pyramiden is a small abandoned town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Located 50 kilometres from the regional capital Longyearbyen, the settlement was founded by Sweden in 1910 and purchased by the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1927. |
Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Among the facilities found in the town was a museum, a direct predecessor of the currently existing one. In 1998, a few years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Pyramiden – still owned by Trust Arktikugol – was abandoned. For years it remained a ghost town, with only sporadic human activity. Most of the buildings, and the items in them, were left as they were. After over a decade of decay, Arktikugol started renovated the old "Tulip Hotel" in 2007, upgrading the infrastructure over the next few years to accommodate a minor tourist industry. Since then a handful of Russian workers tasked with maintaining the facilities and guiding tourists visiting from Longyearbyen have been living in Pyramiden.[5][2] In addition to tourist and employee housing, the hotel houses a museum, which shares a room – adjacent from the hotel bar – with a souvenir shop and a postal office |
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