A Tromsø Introduction: A Self-Guided Audio Tour
Description
This tour of Tromsø tour takes you along the seaside, where you'll experience a magnificent view of the Arctic Cathedral, and later you’ll find yourself at the Polar Museum, where you’ll learn about famous Polar researchers like Fritjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen. Along the main street, take a stop at the main city square, before you continue to the Tromsø Cathedral and finally the tour ends at the Hurtigruten port. In this first VoiceMap story from Tromsø, you’ll join Lars Engerengen who takes you on a walk from the port, and then along the seaside and the main street, and then back to the port again. You’ll see the Polar Museum, the Roald Amundsen statue, the main city square and Tromsø Cathedral. The tour automatically plays audio at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app. Downloaded the tour in a wifi zone and the app works offline.
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This museum features photography on the diversity of Tromsø. There are around 500,000 photos. They give a unique insight into Tromsø's history from the 19th century to the present.
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum is a Norwegian visual arts museum in Northern Norway. It claims to be the country's youngest and geographically northernmost art museum.
The Polar Museum is hosted by the University of Tromsø. The city became a central base for polar expeditions for hunting and science, as well as adventure and tourism. The Polar Museum tells the story of this part of Tromsø’s urban and Arctic history.
Tromsø Cathedral was built in 1861, and is Norway's only Protestant cathedral built in wood. The architect of the cathedral was Christian Heinrich Grosch.
Tromsdalen Church or the Arctic Cathedral is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the Tromsdalen valley on the east side of the city of Tromsø.
Roald Amundsen was born in Borge near the town of Sarpsborg in 1872. He began studying medicine, but when his parents died, he interrupted the studies on the contrary to devote himself to polar research.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(21)
We didn’t make it as the ship arrived too late into Tromso
Used GPS and Bluetooth to simplify things. Good information, good route, easy to use.
DO NOT BUY VOICE MAP Tromso !!! We spent the money for nothing! -No real explanation on how this thing works, -I assume you need to start at a specific place, we could not get it to work from another place -it had a problem with determining our position using GPS -lots of flaws -It crashed several times
Hi, I'm sorry that you were unhappy with your experience. When you were having technical difficulties, did you contact VoiceMap support via email or telephone? We are contactable by both telephone and email, so if you have technical difficulties, please reach out to us so we can identify what is going wrong. Again, I'm sorry about the poor experience you had. Best, Alicia
Tromsø is a sympathetic town, the city tour was short-lived, a bit short for the money, but interesting. You should make them right at the beginning of the journey.
There is not much to see in Tromsø itself. Not much to do either - but good places to eat and/or drink (prices are usually fair, people are nice and well-behaved, there are no safety concerns). But there are a lot to see, all around, not so far from the town. So, it is a good place for lodging. Note : a this moment (end of June 2025), there is a lot construction/repairs work going on here., in the streets. It is slightly annoying, considering the noise, the dirt and also some alteration of the immediate scenery. The never-ending daylight is quite an experience...
30 minutes of the main highlights. There are longer organized tours, but this gave us all we needed to appreciate this lovely town.
It is well produced but seems a little thin. For the price , it's not bad, but don't expect much. We think you can buy one tour and share on two phones, but that was not clear in any of the instructions. So we paid for two tours and probably didn't need to.
Hi there, I'm sorry that you were unhappy with your experience. Can you tell us a bit more about what you mean by "seems a little thin" or email more information to support@voicemap.me? Your first instinct was correct, you have to purchase one tour per person. When you buy multiple copies of the same tour through Tripadvisor, we provide you with one code that everyone in your group can use to avoid confusion but the code is only valid for the number of tours you've purchased. Best,
I left this to our last afternoon and the link did not work. I tried and my son tried and it came up with an 'invalid code' message. As I left this for my last experience i did not believe I would get a response sufficiently quickly to be able to do the walk, so did not try.
Hi there, I'm sorry that you were unhappy with your experience. VoiceMap is contactable by both telephone and email, so if you have technical difficulties, please reach out to us so we can identify what is going wrong. We usually try tor respond as soon as possible. Again, I'm sorry about the poor experience you had.
The tour assumes the cruiseship docks in Tromso with the starting point close by. Our cruiseship docked 2kl out of the city with the shuttle in to Tromso dropping us off in the middle of downtown. We asked for directions to the statue starting point and were directed to a statue but the wrong one. We used the tour but found out we were following it backwards. Dialoque was still quite good at all of the points of interest. Polar musseum was very good.
I downloaded the tour and it was not too long, not too short, it was just right! We went at our own pace and could stop the narration to go into shops or take photos. Glad we did it!
