Museums are ever so boring...

Nope, museums WERE ever so boring...
Wednesday 21 february UIS treated us all on an excursion, in which we travelled through the local countryside. On the way we also visited the jaermuseet, about farming in Norway.
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Farming? What do farmers need?

Air to breath and money to spend...

So how do they make money?

By cultivating farmland ofcourse.

Farmland in Jaeren is mostly situated at the valleybottom. In this area the ground isn't very rich in nutriënts so they use fertilizers. It is very rich in rocks though...
The reason there is an extensive array of farms is the jaeren area is densly populated, so there is a market to sell farming products. Remember transport is not easy in this country, so being close to the client is obviously an advantage...

The key mission of the museum can be read by enlarging this image. Yep, wanna learn, put some effort into it, hehehe...

Free jewelry?

Yep, all provided for...

Ofcourse i was among the first to discover this, so no queing for this clown...

The jewel is a plough blade, which you have to make yourself.
First activate a robotic arm to hand over a metal plate. Afterwards it's manual labour to shape the plate... Rut (right) is in the middle of the process, tightly pulling the lever to cut, bend and shape the blade...
Caitriona (left) is cutting a hole in the blade so you can attach a ring or string...

Glass houses? Greenhouses?

Yep mister, yes ma'am.
A functioning greenhouse in the middle of the museum.

In Belgium there are about as much greenhouses as regular houses...
Over here there are less...

Again, self-provising as they wanna be in this cold country, they want greenhouses.
Madman or plain common sense? Make up your own mind...

Turning around, cow guts...

All about feeding cows in a modern farm. The black platform is completely interactive, if you want to be active, that is...
Storing food in the silo, getting it out to the cow,... It's all possible...

In the basement, Norways most modern farming machines?

Boys toys are ofcourse provided for:

But why wander around in the museum, when UIS provides you with free drinks and snacks?
Yeah girls, proof is in the picture...

On the bus there was a lot of talk about the long stretching beaches in Jaren country. So afterwards, a short stop.
Man, guess they must be crowded in summer. 200 People per square meter?

My interest was however pointed towards the atlantic wall left from WOII...

If they all come over to my home country they may see a proper beach... And if we visit the spanish people there might even be some palmtrees too...

Anyway, clown is frozen. Clown is cold. Clown is hungry.
Clown hops on the bus...

C ya!