Museum · Rjukan, Norway

Vemork

The heavy water plant sabotaged in 1943, with the pipeline the saboteurs climbed still on the cliff.

Vemork is in Rjukan, and this is Rjukan — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 580 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 59.873°N, 8.489°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The Bergen and Dovre railways are two of Europe's great train rides and cost less than the equivalent flight if booked early. All of Norway →

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Rjukan · Østlandet & the East · Norway

We do not hold opening hours, prices or a website for this

Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

What happens here

Experiences tied to this place, and how each one is tied to it — standing on it, starting from it, or looking at it.

Vemork and the heavy water raid

The plant, the pipeline the saboteurs climbed, and an account that does not tidy up how close it came to failing.

Happens here

Other places in Rjukan

The Sun Mirrors

Three heliostats on the mountain throwing daylight into a square the sun cannot reach for six months.

Monument

The record

What this atlas holds about Vemork, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Museum
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 59.873°N, 8.489°E
In: Rjukan