VilVite - Bergen Science Center
Hands-on science centre with over a hundred interactive exhibits on ocean, energy and the body.
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About this audio guide
This guide to VilVite, the Bergen Science Center, steps outside the exhibits to the man whose name is on the street by its door: Jørgen Thor Møhlen, a German-born merchant who reached Bergen in the sixteen-sixties. It follows his rise to become Norway's biggest shipowner, the private industrial town he built on this ground, and the day he asked a whole city to trust his paper money. Best heard on the pavement of Thormøhlens gate, facing the building.
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