Explore Flåm

The Flåm Railway Museum occupies the old station building beside Flåm station, next to the platforms of the Flåm Railway. Its exhibition tells how the line to Myrdal, one of the steepest standard-gauge railways in Europe, was planned and built between 1924 and 1940, how its technology developed, and who the workers and engineers behind it were.

The Flåm Railway (Flåmsbana) is a 20-kilometre branch of the Bergen Line that climbs from Flåm on the Aurlandsfjord to Myrdal station, 866 metres higher. Opened in 1940, it runs up the Flåmsdalen valley on gradients of up to 5.5 percent through 20 tunnels; the trip takes about 55 minutes each way, with a short stop at the Kjosfossen waterfall.

Stegastein is a viewing platform on the Aurlandsfjellet road above Aurland, about 8 km from Flåm. Designed by the architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen for the Norwegian Scenic Routes, the 30-metre walkway of steel and laminated pine reaches out over the pine trees and ends in a glass front 650 metres above the Aurlandsfjord.

Undredal Stave Church is a small white wooden church in the village of Undredal on the Aurlandsfjord, about 10 km from Flåm. Probably built in the second half of the 12th century and first mentioned in 1321, it was later clad in horizontal boards and extended westwards; with 40 seats it is the smallest stave church in Scandinavia still in use as a parish church.

The Nærøyfjord is a 17-kilometre arm of the Sognefjord that branches off the Aurlandsfjord and ends at the village of Gudvangen, about 17 km by road from Flåm. Mountains rise to about 1,700 metres on both sides and the fjord narrows to 250 metres. Part of the West Norwegian Fjords UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, it is seen from the boats between Flåm and Gudvangen.