What to See in Voss - Top Sights and Attractions

Waterfall in Norway. Tvindefossen is a waterfall in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located about 12 kilometres north of the village of Vossevangen along the European route E16 road to Flåm.

The many-stranded waterfall, often said to be 152 metres (499 ft) high, is actually 116 metres (381 ft), is formed by a small Kroelvi stream, tumbling over a receding cliff. It is famous for its beauty. Buses sometimes stop for people to admire it. It was painted in 1830 by Johan Christian Dahl.

In addition, in the late 1990s the water at Tvindefossen acquired a reputation for rejuvenation and revival of sexual potency that made it one of the most important natural tourist attractions in western Norway, with as many as 200,000 people a year from the U.S. Japan and Russia visiting and filling containers with the water.

At one point it was Norway's ninth most visited natural attraction, with 272,000 visitors.^[1]

Hangursbanen was a cableway in Voss, Norway, 1,126 metres long with a top altitude of 660m above sea level. It was owned and run by Voss Resort AS, a local ski resort in Voss.

The cableway starts about 500 metres from the train station at Voss, up to the Hangursrestaurant, which is in the same building as the cable car top station. The cable car operated during winter, the skiing season and in summer.

There were two cable cars on the lines, the Dinglo (red) and the Danglo (blue), on opposite sides, but on the same cable. When one was at the top, the other one was at the bottom. The names come from the swaying from side to side which is "dingling" in Norwegian slang.

Hangursbanen had a maximum speed of 8 m/s. The last journey was on 30 August 2015; the cableway was then disassembled. A new one was built in 2019.^[3]

Mølstertunet is a cluster of the buildings from two farms on the farm Mølster on Voss. The yard was taken over by the Voss Folk Museum around 1920 and is operated today as part of the Hardanger and Voss Museum foundation. It is located in the valley side around 2 km from Vossevangen.

On behalf of Fortidsminneforening, Tunet was measured by architect Gerhard Fischer in 1910. The businessman and village book author Lars Kindem was the driver to take over the Mølstertunet. In September 1917 he got an agreement with Botolv Mølster to buy his house in the yard. In the same autumn, the Voss village museum was established and took over the purchase contract. A few years later, the museum also bought Arnfinn Mølster's part of the property.

The yard consists of 17 farmhouses and the facility was protected in full by the National Antiquarian as early as 1923: Stove (Anfinn), Flor (Anfinn), Stall and Smalflor (Anfinn), Vedhus (Anfinn), Loft (Anfinn), BU (Anfinn), Løe (Anfinn), Eldhus/Årestove (Anfinn), Stove (Botolv), loft (Botolv), Flor (Botolv), Kårstove (Botolv), Bu (Botolv), Smie (Botolv), Vedhus (Botolv), Lion (Botolv ), Eldhus/Årestove (Botolv)

After the museum took over, it bought a mill from the farm Bø in Tjukkebygda, and this was set up right next to the yard.

The oldest house is a year room, probably from the 16th century, and the newest houses are from the 1880s.

In November 1926, the museum was temporarily opened. On July 29, 1928, the Voss Folk Museum was officially opened with a convention where National Antiquarian Harry Fett held the keynote speech.

In 1985, a new fire -safe museum building was opened for permanent and changing exhibitions. Mølstertunet also has a large collection of use art, furniture and tools.