The Zinc Mine Museum is located where the first shovel of zinc was excavated that year, and the designers participated in the exhibition setting of the museum introducing the history of the zinc mine.
The museum, called allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum, is located in the Allmannajuvet Valley in sauda, Norway. Three buildings, including a museum, a café and a service center, were "painstakingly" settled on the mine — the service center was fixed to a rocky wall, while on the other side of the steep hillside, grid-like wooden strips dug into the rocks to lift the café and museum.
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The three buildings are mainly composed of three parts, including a simple black rectangular wooden house, wooden supports and a corrugated zinc roof, which is simple and simple.
Detailed map of the museum. Image courtesy of Wallpaper
The museum was built to commemorate the Abandoned Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine, abandoned more than 100 years ago. Once Norway's zinc centre, the mine began operations in 1882 with more than 160 employees, truckloads of zinc shoveled from workers and shipped to Wales for processing, producing more than 12,000 tonnes of zinc, but after less than 18 years of operation, it was forced to close due to fluctuations in zinc prices. The mine, which has been dormant for more than a century, has become a destination for mountaineers.
Inside the café. Image courtesy of Designboom
In this design, textual descriptions of local history were done by historian Arnvid Lillehammer. Stein Erik Lauritzen, a local geographer from Sauda, helped with the geographical study and description of the local topography and mining area. All buildings are pre-produced in Saudasjoen and assembled in Allmannajuvet. The external support system consists of thin wood chips treated with carbonic acid infusion. The exterior walls are 18 mm thick glued formwork and coarse jute cloth processed from German PMMA acrylic.
The Zinc Mine Museum project, part of Norway's National Tourist Routes project, was discussed in 2002 and was built in 2011.
In order to attract more tourists, since 1994, the Norwegian Highway Administration has opened 18 tourist routes, combining the natural landscape of the gorge (straits, waterfalls, etc.), historical heritage and innovative design, with many small projects on a low budget but with exquisite beauty.
This is also the second time that Zumto has designed a building for the national travel route.