Skogar Museum, South Region, Iceland
4.5 (579 reviews) Monday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #4 in Skogar Speciality Museums • History Museums
Very BIG and well-done museum with restaurant attached
Skogar Museum, in Skogar, Southern Iceland, is a cultural heritage collection of 15,000 artifacts exhibited in 3 museums and 6 historical buildings. It's one minute from Skogar Waterfall, just off Ring Road 1. Skogar Museum is open 365 days of the year, and we look forward to your visit! Hours: June, July, August 9:00-18:00, September through May 10:00-17:00. The Folk Museum includes agricultural and fishery tools, boats and maritime gear, textiles and costumes, musical instruments, rare books and manuscripts, natural history, and fascinating Icelandic curiousities. The Open Air Museum includes a traditional turf farmstead, a 19th century gabled farm home, a home crafted from ship wrecked driftwood, a multi denominational church assembled from 16 regional churches, and of course a miniature turf home for elves. The Transport and Communications Museums document technologies transforming rural south coast farmsteads into a network of modern communities, with an exemplary collection of automobiles, trucks, highway machinery, telecommunication, radio, and rescue team equipment used over the last century.
Address
Skogasafn 1, Skogar 861 Iceland
Mobile
Website
http://www.skogasafn.is
Working hours
Monday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 13, 2024, 5:36
User Ratings
4.5 based on (579 reviews)
Reviews
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4Elina Michaelidou 5:00 PM Jan 11, 2022
Three museums in one
I really underestimated this place. It is separated into 3 museums and each needs a fair amount of time to see. There is the folk museum who interesting historical items, an open-air museum with houses you can get in and see how they used to be and a technical museum with a lot of exhibits about technology, transportation and much more. Unfortunately, we visited the museum 1 hour before closing and we barely managed to quickly walk from every room in the two indoor museums and outside from the outdoor houses (they were closed by the time we finished the other too). So, if you want to really see this museum leave aside at least 2 hours if not more.
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4mastaple 5:00 PM Jun 19, 2022
very educational and eye opening
Nice fishing and technology history of Iceland. the outdoor exhibits of housing over time shows how much change there has been in Iceland and the harsh conditions in normal life and then with Volcanic activity. A hidden gem in the museum is the stuffed and skeletal animals in the basement showing the types of wildlife in Iceland
