Our landscape, with its many different rocks, tells an exciting and very long story!
In the Geopark's visitor centre, the very longest story of Vestfold and Telemark is told, spanning a full 1,500 million years.
In the center you will find various rocks, minerals, mammoth teeth, dinosaur models, microscopes, video installations, maps, exhibitions and more.
What does sand look like under the microscope or what can you see in a drop of water when the organisms "bloom" in the spring? Or maybe there are some radioactive rocks in the exhibition?
The visitor center usually has a geologist on hand who is happy to answer questions or show around. Opening hours: Weekdays 10am-3pm.
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Borgestad Church at Borgestad in Skien was consecrated of 24 May 1907.
Christian burial grounds, cooking pits and "witches graves".
Kapitelberget in Skien, church ruins from the 1100s, after the mighty Dagsætten…
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Spriten Kunsthall is located on Klosterøya, a few minutes walk from the center of Skien.
The sculpture Rat Virgin is located near by Skien centre, at Bakkestranda.
Skien sluse is the first lock in the Telemark Canal, with connection between Skienselva…
The artist behind the wall art on the mall “Arkaden” is Spaik - Romero Guerra from Mexico…
Snipetorp is the only authentic urban environment that survives from Henrik Ibsen’s time…
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Painting of a family sitting on the pier, based on an original photo from the Fishing…
In this building, in the corner room on the 2nd floor, Henrik Ibsen was born.
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