Skógar Museum
Regional folk museum at Skógar with an open-air village of turf houses and a transport hall.
Skógar Museum was opened on 1 December 1949 under the shelter of the Eyjafjöll cliffs, a short walk from the Skógafoss waterfall. It grew out of the collecting work of Þórður Tómasson, a local farmer's son who gathered objects from the districts of Rangárvallasýsla and West Skaftafellssýsla from the 1940s onwards and served as curator until 2013. The holdings now run to some 18,000 items covering farming, fishing, textiles, woodwork and daily life in the south of Iceland.
The site has three parts. The folk museum holds the artefact collection, including an eight-oared fishing boat built in 1855. The open-air museum brings together re-erected historic buildings: turf-roofed farmhouses, a timber church, a nineteenth-century school, a cowshed and storehouses, laid out as a small settlement. A technical museum opened in 2002 traces transport and communications, from pack-horse equipment and ferries to early motor vehicles, telephones and rescue gear.
Highlights
- Open-air village of re-erected turf-roofed farm buildings
- Collection of about 18,000 objects from southern Iceland
- Fishing boat Pétursey, built in 1855
- Technical museum of transport and communications
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