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Jostedalsbreen nasjonalparksenter

The Jostedalsbreen National Park Visitor Centre stands on the banks of Lake Stryn, just west of the park, surrounded by precipitous mountains.


A recently opened geological park and a botanical garden with 400 individually named species, most of which grow wild in the district, are popular attractions in the grounds. Inside the Centre, you can watch a film about the national park and see exhibitions about glaciers, avalanches, geology, animals and plants.

The Centre opened in 1993 and received its authorisation as a national park visitor centre in 1997.

The main building at the Centre is designed on similar principles to a Viking longhouse and is as large as the largest one found in Norway. In contrast, the cinema is in a modern-style building built in polished Norwegian stone, larvikite. This symbolises the meeting between the past and the future; you have to build on the past to take care of the future.

Services and facilities

  • Panorama film about the Jostedalsbreen Ice Cap
  • Exhibitions on avalanches, geology and landscape, botany and zoology
  • Botanical garden with 400 individually named wild flowers, designed by the late Professor Olav Gjærevoll in 1994
  • Twelve natural history and cultural heritage trails
  • Stone park; each local authority in the county of Sogn & Fjordane has chosen its municipal stone
  • Teaching programme for primary and secondary schools linked with the botanical garden and the trails
  • Café
  • Souvenir shop

Organisation

The Jostedalsbreen National Park Visitor Centre is a Foundation run by the County Governor of Sogn & Fjordane, Stryn Borough Council, Sogn & Fjordane University College, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, the Norwegian Trekking Association, the Norwegian Botanical Association and Nordfjord Folk Museum.

For more information, visit Jostedalsbreen nasjonalparksenter

 		 
Jostedalsbreen National Park Visitor Centre in Oppstryn. - Copyright: Raoul Bierach
Jostedalsbreen National Park Visitor Centre in Oppstryn. Photo: Raoul Bierach
Mountain avens is one of the 400 species growing in the botanical garden. - Copyright: Anne Armas
Mountain avens is one of the 400 species growing in the botanical garden. Photo: Anne Armas
Schoolchildren in the botanical garden. - Copyright: Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre
Schoolchildren in the botanical garden. Photo: Jostedalsbreen National Park Centre
The stone park attractively presents municipal stones from every local authority in the county of Sogn & Fjordane. - Copyright: Roger Vik
The stone park presents stones from every local authority in the county of Sogn & Fjordane. Photo: Roger Vik
 


Jostedalsbreen National Park Visitor Centre


NO-6799 Oppstryn
Phone: +47 57 87 72 00
Fax: +47 57 87 72 01 

E-mail:
post@jostedalsbre.no

Website:
www.jostedalsbre.no

Jostedalsbreen National Park Visitor Centre - small map - Copyright: DN