The Heathland Centre, Lygra

The Lyngheisenteret is a museum at Lygra in Lindås municipality in Vestland, which consists of a preserved heather landscape. The center was created as a result of the Lindå project's work in the 1970s. The Lyngheisenteret was founded in 1999 by the University of Bergen, Hordaland county municipality, Lindås municipality, the regional council in Nordhordland and Gulen, as well as the landowners on Lygra. An information center with a restaurant, auditorium and permanent exhibition was opened in 2000. In 2001, the Lyngheisenteret UNESCO's Global Cultural Landscape Award, followed by Europa Nostra's cultural landscape award in 2005.

The museum is run as a farm with output sheep and heather burning in addition to the museum operation. The heather meadows are open to pedestrians throughout the year, while the museum itself, the information building, is only open in the summer.

Today, the Lyngheisenteret is part of the Museum Center in Hordaland. The Museum Center in Hordaland became the first consolidated museum in Hordaland in the merger of the Norwegian Tricotage Museum, the conservation services and the joint conservator for technical and industrial cultural heritage in Bergen in 2004. In 2006, the Department of Cultural Conservation In Nordhordland was created. From 1 January 2007, the operation of the Osterøy Museum, Havråtunet and also part of Muho, while the Lyngheisenteret joined from February 12, 2007.