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Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum (NIA) |
3660 Rjukan, Norway (Telemark.) |
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Vemork Power Plant
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Industry / Production Technology
- Chemistry
- Electric motors/generators/pumps
- Computer / Informatic
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Opening times
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10:00 - 18:00; holidays: 10:00 - 18:00 | ||||||||
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Status from 11/2018
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Adults: NOK 95; Students: NOK 85; Children: NOK 65 | ||||||||
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| Homepage | nia.no/vemork | ||||||||
nia.no 
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The Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum Foundation comprises six visitor sites: Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum in Vemork Power Plant, Tinn Museum, Heddal Open-air Museum, the Rjukan-Line, Telemark Gallery and Lysbuen Industrial Museum. Rjukan is a town and the administrative centre of Tinn municipality in Telemark, Norway. It is situated in Vestfjorddalen, between Møsvatn and Lake Tinn, and got its name after Rjukan Falls west of the town. |
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Stiftelsen NIA består av Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum Vemork, Tinn Museum, Heddal Bygdetun, Rjukanbanen, Telemarksgalleriet og Lysbuen Industrimuseum. |
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| Description | Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum Rjukanfossen (the Rjukan Waterfall) lay the foundation for the Vemork Power Plant, which became the largest of its kind in the world when completed in 1911. The Vemork Power Plant now houses the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum and the World Heritage Centre. Visitors can learn about the industrial adventure that began in the early 1900s and about the dramatic events that took place in Rjukan during World War II. The industrialisation of Rjukan is described in the permanent exhibition titled Industristedet Rjukan (The Industrial Town of Rjukan). The exhibition provides visitors with an introduction to the story that led to Rjukan being inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Vemork Power Plant was where Norwegian saboteurs carried out Operation Gunnerside, one of the best-known sabotage operations of World War II, and prevented the Germans from developing nuclear weapons using the heavy water produced here. This is the story on which the film Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water and the TV series The Heavy Water War are based. Helter i Telemark (The Heroes of Telemark) is an exciting exhibition with a local touch. It dramatises the famous four sabotage operations against local heavy water production, but heavy emphasis is also placed on the other local heroes and operations that were carried out in wartime Rjukan. |
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Rjukanfossen ga grunnlaget for Vemork, som da den stod ferdig i 1911 var verdens største kraftstasjon. Vemork huser nå NIA og verdensarvsenteret. Her kan man få historien til det fantastiske industrieventyret som utspant seg fra tidlig på 1900-tallet og den dramatiske krigshistorien fra Rjukan under andre verdenskrig. Historien om industrialiseringen fortelles i den unike faste utstillingen «Industristedet Rjukan». Denne gir deg en innføring i historien som ligger til grunn for at Rjukan nå er på UNESCOs verdensarvliste. Vemork var åstedet for en av de mest omtalte sabotasjeaksjonene under 2. verdenskrig, Operasjon Gunnerside, der norske sabotører hindret tyskerne i å utvikle atomvåpen av tungtvannet som ble produsert her. Det er her filmene og serien «Kampen om Tungtvannet» stammer fra. “Helter i Telemark”, er en spennende utstilling med lokalt preg. Her dramatiseres de fire berømte sabotasjeaksjonene mot lokal tungtvannsproduksjon, men det legges også stor vekt på alle de andre lokale heltene og aksjonene under krigsårene på Rjukan. |
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