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Exhibition

1. Sculpture by Bård Breivik, with real glacier ice from the Jostedalsbreen.

2. Making a glacier film. Shows how Ivo Caprino made the film. The film is shown twice an hour, and lasts 18 minutes.

3. Our fragile climate - experience past and future climates. An unusual exhibition about natural and man-made changes in climate. See also Ulltveit-Moe Climate Center.

4. What is a glacier?

5. What is a jökulhlaup? A jökulhlaup is a sudden and rapid draining of a glacier-dammed lake. Experience the volcanic eruption under the glacier Vatnajökull, Iceland, in 1996 which caused extreme glacier melting and major flood damage.

6. Mammoth. The largest mammal that ever lived in Norway. This mammoth tusk from Siberia is 30 000 years old.

7. The weather. What kind of weather allows glaciers to exist?

8. Why is the ice blue? A piece of glacier ice looks white, but at the glacier the ice is blue.

9. Energy from the glacier. Meltwater from the glacier is used in hydroelectric power production. Some of the power plants are built under the glacier.

10. How much energy can you make? Try to make energy by cycling.

11. Glacier hiking. Equipment, photos and description of six various hikes on the Jostedal glacier.

12. The glacier tongue. Experience the underside of a glacier in a safe way by entering an artificial melt water chanel. Hear the noise of the moving ice and the meltwater and feel the cold wind.

13. How the fjords where formed. During the last 2-3 million years the glacier carved out the fjords. How does this work? Are the fjords deeper than Grand Canyon in the USA?

14. + 19. The glacier river makes new land. Due to the glacier river Fjærland is increasing its area every year. How? Ice experiment: Erode the bedrock like a glacier does and participate in forming a valley.

15. Why is the fjord green? (experiment) In summer, the water in the fjord is not clear but looks greyish green. 

16. Natural climate changes. Changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun, combined with decreased insolation can cause an ice age. Enter the simulator and make your own ice age!

17. The glaciers – our best climate record. Scientists obtain ice cores of several kilometre length from the ice shields in Greenland and Antarctica. These ice cores contain information on past climate.

18. Ice-experiment. Watch ice melting under pressure, and refreezing. Experiment with coloured water running through the ice.

20. Jostedalsbreen National Park was established in 1991. The Glacier Museum is situated at one of the entrances to the park. See how the landscape looks like under the ice cap.

21. Cold news. Changing topics from glacial and climate reseach.

22. Experiments. Make your own 'soft' ice, try the ice screw in real glacier ice and learn why crevasses occure on the glacier.

23. Ötzi – the man in the ice. The exhibition tells the story about the 5300 year old iceman Ötzi who was found in a glacier in the European Alps in 1991. Also read about finds in some of the Norwegian glaciers.

24. What is special about glacial rivers? Learn about the differences between glacial rivers and other rivers. See and listen to real time data from weather stations on the glacier (1000 m asl.) and by the glacier river.

 

 

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