The French Museum, East Region, Iceland
4.5 (81 reviews) Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #1 in Faskrudsfjordur Speciality Museums
Worth a visit
Worth a visit, mandatory if you are guests of the Eastfjords Foss Hotel that guests the museum. Is devoted to french fishermen that sails from Brittany to fish cod in Iceland waters. Really nice and interesting.
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Hafnargata 12, Faskrudsfjordur 750 Iceland
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http://en.visitfjardabyggd.is/things-to-do/museums/details/the-french-museum
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Monday, May 13, 2024, 19:26
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4.5 based on (81 reviews)
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5johnp32000 5:00 PM Sep 8, 2021
Small but the downstairs ship recreation was so much fun!
This museum is attached to the Fosshotel and is all related because the hotel itself is a historic French hospital that was restored and converted into a hotel. The upstairs of the museum had some artifacts and lifelike recreations but the downstairs stole the show with a recreation of a French fishing ship. Hard life it would have been!
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4BrisbaneAnne 5:00 PM Aug 17, 2013
Fascinating museum
This small museum tells the story of French fishermen in Iceland and I found it really interesting. Faskrudsfjordur was a focus of settlement for the French fisherman and some of the streets here have French names, as well as Icelandic. The museum has interesting photos and other items. It is really worth reading the folders, that are available in different languages, to guide you around the museum. I was engrossed by the vivid descriptions of the lives of the fishermen and the dangerous conditions that fishermen on the boats, worked in so many years ago. The museum has a small cafe and sells some lovely postcards of the area.
