Aurora Reykjavík - The Northern Lights Center
Interactive museum unraveling the science and myths of the aurora borealis through film, VR and touch-screen exhibits.
This guide to Aurora Reykjavík - The Northern Lights Center follows Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland, who first proposed that the aurora borealis came from the sun and built a magnetized brass globe to test it. It follows him to a locked hotel room in Tokyo in June 1917, where he was found dead beside an untouched revolver, his theory still dismissed by his peers. You'll hear about the fortune his other invention brought Norway, and the sleeplessness, isolation, and barbiturate habit that closed in on him before that night. Inside a converted harbor warehouse at Grandi, the particles he studied now glow silently on the screens around you.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.