Vitenfabrikken

Opening Times

Vitenfabrikken (16 Aug 2021 - 19 Dec 2021)
Day	Times
Tuesday	10:00	- 15:00
Wednesday	10:00	- 20:00
Thursday - Friday	10:00	- 15:00
Saturday - Sunday	11:00	- 17:00

Vitenfabrikken (19 June 2022 - 15 Aug 2022)
Day	Times
Monday	Closed
Tuesday - Sunday	11:00	- 17:00

* One ticket valid on all Jærmuseet's museums and Hå gamle prestegard that day.

About

At Vitenfabrikken, the exhibitions are interactive – you are invited to see and touch – and have fun while you discover! After a visit here, you would be able to tell how warm your brain is, how fast you react, how strong the spider web is and much more!

You can, amongst other things, challenge friends and family to a wheelchair race, or see who responds the fastest in the reaction wall. A must-do at Vitenfabrikken, is to visit the top modern Planetarium and find out more about space and the universe. Vitenfabrikken also has a Tesla-Coil, where you can try and catch arches with 750.000 volt strength. The younger children like to run the harbour and control the crane. In the exhibitions about Sandnes, you can discover more about well-known brands such as Figgjo (porcelain) and DBS (bicycles).

During weekends and school holidays, there is an extended activity programme with science shows, workshops and showings in the Planetarium.

Vitenfabrikken has a café and a museum shop.

Vitenfabrikken is part of Jærmuseet, a regional museum for the municipalities Randaberg, Sola, Sandnes, Gjesdal, Klepp, Time and Hå. The museum was named “Museum of the Year 2009” in Norway, and it also received the European Micheletti Award 2009” for one of Europe’s best technology museums.

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perkristiang
Stavanger, Norway
Trip Type:
Family
Fun & interesting
Sunday, 14th October 2018
Rarely we see places in the range of museums or playgrounds that catches the interest and fun for both adults and children the like. This is one of them! Live demos of the tesla coil (and no,- tesla... Read full review
Aberdeen14323
Mintlaw, United Kingdom
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Family
Disappointing
Saturday, 7th September 2019
This looked as though it could be quite good but unfortunately several of the displays were marked as under repair and several others were either faulty or just not working. The “Rocketry Centre... Read full review
jusylte
Sandnes, Norway
Trip Type:
Family
Rainy day escape
Thursday, 30th April 2020
My fav place to go with kids rainy day. I have annual pass for last three years there - do I need to say more how I like this place? The first floor is free for visitors, by the way. Makerplace there... Read full review

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Guide Prices

Ticket Type	Ticket Tariff
Adults	NOK140.00 admission
Children 4 - 17	NOK75.00 admission
Family ticket Two adults and three children	NOK380.00 admission
Student	NOK75.00 admission

One ticket is valid for all Jærmuseet's museums and Hå gamle Prestegard that day.

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