After passing a 10-metre steel moose further up the road, here at Evenstad you can meet the real thing. The Norwegian Moose Centre sits on the campus of Innlandet University's forestry school, which has been training foresters since 1912. The centre was originally established at Gravberget in 2006 but went bankrupt in 2012. The moose were relocated to Evenstad in 2013, and the centre reopened for visitors in 2016.
The enclosure holds female moose who are used to people, so you get genuinely close. There is a small museum with displays on moose ecology and the other wildlife of Østerdalen: wolves, foxes, birds of prey. Stor-Elvdal has the highest moose density in Norway, which is why the steel statue stands where it does and why collisions remain a real hazard on Rv3, especially at dawn and dusk.
The enclosure holds female moose who are used to people, so you get genuinely close. There is a small museum with displays on moose ecology and the other wildlife of Østerdalen: wolves, foxes, birds of prey. Stor-Elvdal has the highest moose density in Norway, which is why the steel statue stands where it does and why collisions remain a real hazard on Rv3, especially at dawn and dusk.
