Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Train
To Oslo (Nkr238, 1¼ hours, once or twice hourly), Røros (Nkr494, 3¼ hours, up
to four daily), and Trondheim (Nkr722, five hours, four or five daily) via Lillehammer
(Nkr120, one hour).
Elverum
POP 19,834
With a name like Elverum, you might expect a whiff of magic, but in reality this is a
fairly nondescript town set amid the vast and lush green timberlands of southern Hedmark
county. Its excellent forestry museum is the main reason to stop here en route elsewhere.
Sights
Norsk Skog Museum
FORESTRY MUSEUM
(Norwegian Forestry Museum; 62 40 90 00;
www.skogmus.no
,
in Norwegian;
Rv20; adult/child/student & senior Nkr90/40/60, incl Glomdal Museum Nkr120/70/
90; 10am-5pm mid-Jun-mid-Aug, 10am-4pm rest of yr)
This museum, 1km south
of central Elverum, covers the multifarious uses and enjoyments of Norwegian forests. It
includes anatureinformation centre, achildren'sworkshop,geological andmeteorological
exhibits, wood carvings, an aquarium, nature dioramas with all manner of stuffed native
wildlife (including a mammoth) and a 20,000-volume reference library.
Glomdal Museum
REGIONAL MUSEUM
( 62 41 91 00;
www.glomdal.museum.no
; adult/child/student & senior Nkr90/40/60,
incl Forestry Museum Nkr120/70/90; 10am-5pm mid-Jun-mid-Aug, 10am-4pm
rest of yr)
West 2km of the town centre is this collection of 90 historic buildings from the
Glomma valley.
Sleeping & Eating
Elverum Camping
CAMPGROUND €
