My name is Bjørg Rist and I run Rjukan & Tinn Guide Service. I was born and bred in Tinn and I like living among the high mountains with beautiful scenery around me. Many tourists visit Tinn each year, and now I wish to welcome you. Just get in touch if you would like to use Rjukan & Tinn Guideservice.

Bjørg Rist, Lyngveien 7, 3660 Rjukan
Phone: 35 09 42 46
Mobile: 95 72 34 96
Fax: 35 09 44 62
E-mail: tinn@rjukanguide.no 

Things you can hear more about

• The mountain Gaustatoppen and the waterfall Rjukanfossen, which was a magnet for tourists at the end of the nineteenth century.

• The area round Krokan, with Maristigen and The Norwegian Tourist Association's first tourist cabin, built in 1895 for rich tourists, complete with billiard room and tennis court.

• Life by the waterfall.

• The regulation of Møsvann and the river Måna and the chain of 5 hydro-electric power plants.

• The development of hydro-electric power, industrial history, working-class culture and the trade-unions.

• Rjukan’s development - from farming to industry in 10 years.

• One of the world's largest industrial projects - Norsk Hydro and Sam. Eyde.

• Preserved architecture.

• Krossobanen - the cablecar built in 1928 for Rjukan’s inhabitants.

• The history of heavy water and sabotage during the Second World War.

• Hard times with the disappearance of industrial jobs.

• The Norwegian Industrial Workers' Museum at Vemork - the world's largest power plant when it was built in 1911.

• Rjukan church, which burned down while the British company Benton was filming “The Heroes of Telemark”.

• Tinn Museum - a collection of 28 old farm buildings from the area, depicting traditional Norwegian building methods and daily life 2 to 3 hundred years ago.

• The secrets of Lake Tinnsjø and its surroundings – history, culture and local traditions.

• Mår hydro-electric power plant, which is inside a mountain and is one of the five plants which Statskraft opens to the public.

• Rjukan and Tinn today.