Monument · Longyearbyen, Norway

Global Seed Vault

A concrete wedge in a mountainside holding a million seed samples. Nobody goes inside; the point is that it is there.

Global Seed Vault is in Longyearbyen, and this is Longyearbyen — 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 2,080 km across and 740 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 20 minutes, from outside · Open year-round · 78.236°N, 15.491°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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Longyearbyen · Svalbard · 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.

Other places in Longyearbyen

Svalbard Museum

Whaling, mining, trapping and the ecology of an archipelago where nothing decomposes, in one well-made room.

Museum

The record

What this atlas holds about Global Seed Vault, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Monument
Give it: 20 minutes, from outside
Season: Open year-round
Where: 78.236°N, 15.491°E
In: Longyearbyen