Beautifull and educational interactive exhibition on volcanoes and earthquakes in Iceland.
Tour Operator: Lava Centre
LAVA Centre is the most awarded exhibition in Iceland, a beautiful and interactive expirence embraced by the five giant volcanoes surrounding the center.
In the exhibition area visitors can learn about the geological wonders that form this volcanic island and the characteristics of different types of volcanoes. Interactive displays and earthquake simulators will provide an immersive experience for visitors.
The volcano cinema visitors can watch a 15 minute long film about the latest eruptions in Iceland and the impact of volcanic eruptions on the environment and local communities.
And finally the observation platform where visitors can see the five volcano up close and view the surrounding landscape from a bird's eye view including the neighbouring 4 glaciers. The platform provides an ideal opportunity to take photos and capture memories of the visit.
Finally guests can visit the gift shop and grab a coffee. The beutiful Rammagerðin gift shop is filled with beutiful souvenirs, local design and small gifts to take back home.
After visiting the Lava Centre, visitors will hopefully depart with a greater understanding of the wonders of volcanoes in Iceland and have a better understanding of the volcanic landscape en route.
The itinerary will take approximately 1 hour to complete, but many visitors use even more to enjoy all of the displays, watch the film and take in the stunning views from the observation platform.
Mobile phones for pictures and selfies.
The first experience showcases 100 years of eruption in Iceland. With motion sensors, light walls and sound the experience is amplified.
The second room has the "time wheel" where visitors can turn a huge steel wheel to interactively show the history of Iceland and the huge hot spot that nests right below the island.
In that room, there is also the earthquake wall that shows the tectonic movements and explains earthquakes while the floor vibrates.
The third corridor is the eruption simulator where the latest large earthquake in Iceland from 2000 is simulated with never seen before accuracy.
The fourth room is where the mantle plume (Hot spot) is visualized with a 15 m / 50 ft high column with lights and motion. A breathtaking experience with real sounds from the Eyjafjallajökull Eruption.
In the fifth room, the geothermal corridor, we learn about the different types of geothermal areas and experience life-like geysers on the floor.
The sixth room is the lava room with interactive screens with different types of eruptions and lava flows, the lava seems to flow on the islands in the room and all kinds of rock, tephra and ash samples to touch and even smell. The lava islands are our favourite selfie spot.
The seventh room is a corridor that displays the latest eruption in Iceland, currently the Fagradalseldar on the Reykjanes peninsula.
The last and eighth room is the queen of the show, an interactive, immersive room where the walls are filled with the local giant volcanoes and information is fetched with fantastic interactive gestures in front of each volcano. At last, the whole room is filled with an ash cloud resembling the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010.
In the end the visitors exit into the foyer from where they can enter the Cinema, the observation platform or the gift shop.
A 15 minute long movie in 4K showing all the recent eruptions in Iceland, Eyjafjallakökull and Fagradalsfjall included.
From the observation platform visitors can see the five stars of the exhibition as well as many other volcanoes and 4 glaciers including Langjökull the second largest glacier in Iceland.