A great museum. It's not huge, but it packs a lot of history, information and natural history into it. It's easy to walk around and follow the story - including mining, animals, etc etc. Great.

Excellent and worth the money. (100 Norwegian krona. ) The description and history of Svalbard is very interesting, and if you can spare the time to read the details you will learn a lot more. There is even a makeshift narrow coal miners tunnel that you can actually crawl into and get the feeling of what it was like. We spent 4 hours there and had to be asked to leave as they were closing.

My wife and I arrived just before 2pm. We had stopped by earlier to check it out, bus it was so freaking busy with the cruise ship people. (We too were cruise ship people). So arriving around 2pm, it was not busy at all. No fighting the crowds. As we were leaving, another tour bus showed up and it did ge busy. The museum was very nice. Plenty to see, and plenty of stuff to read too. We had a very nice visit. It was well worth the time and money.

This is a must when visit Longyearbyen. This museum really delivered its "intent". After a visit you are fully loaded with information regarding the wildlife, history, mining, permafrost, climate change, a glimps of the harsh life. The exhebition and such is made in a really professional way and the ambience really gives you the "proper artic feeling". If you wold like to just relax there is a small "room" where you have rain deer and seal skin to rest on while reading a book from the complimentary library. The tour ends with a gift shop where you can by a lot of different articles. A 10/10

We visited this museum, (one of the two), whilst our cruise ship was in port. The museum entrance is adjacent to the University entrance. On arrival you need to put on shoe protectors when entering. It is comparatively small, and well laid out with many exhibits illustrating the employment activities, environment and history of the area. The exhibits include stuffed animals and birds of the region. There is also a book/gift shop. A visit provides a good background of life in the area

It's a small museum and we spent around 1,5 hours there. We felt it was sufficient, got to see films and read most of the text we found interesting. They have some great stuffed animals and recreation of life and history. Some interactive stuff that my teenagers appreciated, that made the time fly by.