Museums in Iceland

Museum in Northeastern Region
Folk Music Center
The Folk Music Centre ( ÞJóðlagasetur sr. Bjarna ÞOrsteinssonar) is a museum about music and musical instruments in Siglufjörður....
Museum in Northeastern Region
Minjasafnið á Mánárbakka
The Manarbakka Museum (Minjasafnið á Mánárbakka) is a personal collection of farmer Adalgeyr, a house with a peat roof and various collections of photographs,...
Museum in Isafjordur
Hvers Museum - Hversdagssafn
The Hvers Museum (Hversdagssafn) is a unique look at everyday life, where the exotic meets the ordinary and familiar. The collection provides a valuable and...
Museum in Vesturland
Borgarnes Museum
The Borgarnes Borgarfjordura Museum (Safnahús Borgarfjarðar) is a community center, archive and library of Borgarnes....
Museum in Westfjords
Arctic Fox Center
The Arctic Fox Centre (Melrakkasetur Íslands, Melrakkasetrið, Arctic Fox Centre) is a research centre focusing on the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), the only...
Museum in Southern region
LA Art Museum - Listasafn Árnesinga
LA Listasafn Arnesinga (LA Art Museum Listasafn Arnesinga, Listasafn Árnesinga) is an art museum that houses a collection of contemporary art, mainly by...
Museum in Vesturland
Saga Center Grundarfjordur
The Saga Centre Grundarfjordur (Grundarfjördur) is a place that has a library, a tourist information center and Beringstof, a small cinema that shows slide...
Museum in Westfjords
The Sorcerer's Cottage
The Sorcerer's Cottage is part of the museum of Witchcraft and Magic, which shows the living conditions of farmers in the 17th century during the witch...
Museum in Westfjords
Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft
At the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft (Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, Kotbýli kuklarans, Galdrasýning á Ströndum) you have the opportunity to get...
Museum in Westfjords
The Sheep Farming Museum
The Sheep Farming Museum is an interactive museum about Icelandic sheep and sheep farming in Iceland. Here you can learn about the history of sheep farming,...
Museum in Northwestern Region
Byggðasafn Húnvetninga og Strandamanna
The Byggðasafn Húnvetninga og Strandamanna Folk Museum (Byggðasafn Húnvetninga og Strandamanna) is a museum that was founded fifty years ago and contains a...
Museum in Northeastern Region
Gallerí Bardúsa Handicraft & Museum
Gallerí Bardúsa Handicraft & Museum (Bardúsa verslunarminjasafn) is a museum of merchants near the harbor in Hvammstangi. Here you will find the history of an...
Museum in Northwestern Region
The Icelandic Seal Center
The Icelandic Seal Center (Selasetur Islands, Upplýsingamiðstöð) is a research center and museum dedicated to seals, where you can learn about various types of...
Museum in Akranes
Akranes Folk Museum
The Akranes Folk Museum (Byggðarsafnið) is a historical place in the city of Akranes, dating back to 1959, when the museum was founded. Ten years earlier,...
Museum in Hafnarfjordur
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjörður Museum (Pakkhúsið Byggðasafn Hafnarfjarðar) is a museum whose purpose is to collect, document, preserve, protect and study objects and artifacts...
Museum in Austurland
Bustarfell Museum
Bustarfell (Bustarfell Museum, Minjasafnið á Bustarfelli) is one of the oldest and best preserved farms of its kind in Iceland. The centuries-old turf houses...
Museum in Northeastern Region
Ystafell Transporation museum
The Ystafell Transport Museum (Samgönguminjasafnið Ystafelli) is the oldest transport museum in Iceland, founded in 1998. It is located in the Kaldakinn Valley...
Museum in Northwestern Region
The Herring Era Museum
The Herring Era Museum (Síldarminjasafn Íslands) is Iceland's largest maritime museum and the only Icelandic museum to receive a European Museum Award....
Museum in Vesturland
The Agricultural Museum of Iceland
The Agricultural Museum of Iceland (Landbúnaðarsafn Íslands) is Iceland's largest collection of agricultural machinery. The museum tells about the history of...
Museum in Höfuðborgarsvæðið
Laxness Museum
Laxness Museum (Gljúfrasteinn safn um Halldór Laxness) is a house museum dedicated to the Icelandic writer and Nobel Prize winner Haldour Laxness (1902-1998),...