Iceland review - 2013, Page 4

Step
into the
Viking
Age
Experience Viking-Age Reykja vík
at the Settle ment Exhibition. The focus
of the exhibition is an excavated
longhouse site which dates from the
10th century ad.
It includes relics of human habi tation
from about 871, the oldest such site
found in Iceland.

Multimedia techniques bring
Reykjavík’s past to life, providing
visitors with insights into how people
lived in the Viking Age, and what the
Reykjavík environment looked like to
the first settlers.
Aðalstræti 16
www.reykjavik871.is
Minjasafn Reykjavíkur
Reykjavík City Museum
National
Museum
of Iceland
The country’s largest museum of cultural history featuring a permanent
exhibition on Iceland’s extraordinary history from settlement to present day.
Opening hours:
Summer (May 1st – September 15th):
Daily 10am – 5pm.
Winter (September 16th – April 30th):
Daily 11am – 5pm except Mondays.
Guided tours in English:
May 1st – September 15th:
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11am.
Suðurgata 41 • 101 Reykjavík
Tel. 530 2200
www.nationalmuseum.is
THE FOLK MUSEUM AT SKÓGAR preserves the cultural
heritage of the Rangárvallasýsla and Vestur-Skaftafellssýsla
region, in the form of tools and equipment used at land
and at sea, crafts, old buildings, books, manuscripts and
documents.
Reconstruction of old turf farmhouses has been one of
the principal features of the museum’s work. The pride of
the museum is the Skógar Church, built in the style which
predominated in Iceland from the Middle Ages until the 19th
century.
Iceland was swept into modernity in an amazingly short
time. A new museum, built in 2002, exhibits the develop-
ment of travel and communication, road building and mech-
anisation at the beginning of the 20 th century. Visit also the
Skógar Boutique and Skógar Café in the new museum. 861 HVOLSVÖLLUR - OPEN DAILY FROM 9:00 TO 18:00
TEL: (+354) 487 8845 FAX (+354) 487 8848. skogasafn@skogasafn.is www.skogasafn.is
THE FOLK
MUSEUM
AT SKÓGAR