LAVA, interactive experience that will reveal the epic forces of nature that shape our planet and created Iceland

2021/04/06

LAVA, interactive experience that will reveal the epic forces of nature that shape our planet and created Iceland

LAVA - Iceland Volcano and Earthquake Centre is an interactive experience that will reveal the epic forces of nature that shape our planet and created Iceland. You will literally feel the power beneath our feet and experience our biggest earthquake. You will feel small, you can touch, you can feel and you will see the "fiery heart" of Iceland

Some of the experiences are not for the faint of heart. LAVA is a must-see. It’s a destination where you can learn, feel and taste. It's located in the town Hvolsvöllur in the heart of South Iceland and “within an arm’s reach” of many of the country's top tourist destinations

LAVA is located by the foothills of our greatest volcanos on Iceland's Ring Road. LAVA will provide you with varied scenes and hands-on learning experiences, as well as a great 360˚ viewing platform that overlooks the great volcanos of Eyjafjallajökull, Katla and Hekla along with the beautiful Westman Islands off the south coast

Source: LAVA Center

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Essentially displaying Iceland’s birth story, the LAVA Centre is a full-blown multimedia experience on volcanic and seismic life. Divided into multiple chambers, the museum includes an earthquake simulator (equivalent to four on the Richter scale) and a fog of smoke resembling volcanic ash. Visitors will likely leave with a sharper understanding of how earthquakes and volcanoes interconnect.

---- Lonely Planet

A live volcano museum

It’s a position that makes the Lava Centre ideally suited to the study, exploration and appreciation of both volcano and earthquake center. Visitors can enjoy its array of interactive experiences that replicate the epic forces that shaped the planet.

---- Delta Electronics, Inc

Given that the objective for the Lava Centre was to offer an interactive, high-tech educational exhibition depicting volcanic activity, earthquakes and the creation of Iceland over millions of years, it needed high performance projectors, some with ideally 4K resolution, with a wide range of lenses, as it would be projecting over quite large distances. The main goal was to create an unforgettable and realistic guest experience, while providing reliability, durability, ease of use and user comfort.

---- Delta Electronics, Inc

The molten rock beneath Reykjanes Peninsula is a somewhat different concoction, a runny and not-too-gassy recipe similar to the stuff coming out of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano right now.

This magma struggles to build up enough pressure as it rises to the surface to create big, ashy explosions. The relative lack of ice cover here also starves the magma of a dangerous fuel, water, which in small amounts is vaporised so violently by molten rock that it triggers ash-producing blasts.

---- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Icelanders had been bracing themselves for an eruption for several weeks, after the island nation recorded more than 50,000 recent earthquakes.

Around 300,000 cubic metres (10.5 million cubic feet) of lava have poured out, experts say, but the eruption is deemed to be relatively small and controlled.

---- BBC

LAVA, interactive experience that will reveal the epic forces of nature that shape our planet and created Iceland

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