The Volcano Exhibition - An immersive experiences
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.
The Volcano Cinema
A 15 minute long movie in 4K showing all the recent eruptions in Iceland, Eyjafjallakökull and Fagradalsfjall included.
The Observation Platform
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.
