Iceland review - 2016, Page 127

ICELAND REVIEW 125
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A guide to some of Iceland’s many museums,
documenting nature, culture and history.
CLASSIC AND
QUIRKY COLLECTIONS
MUSEUMSSPECIAL PROMOTION
No matter where you travel in Iceland,
interesting collections await you, cover-
ing every imaginable subject. In this supple-
ment, you will find information about numer-
ous museums, some of which are particularly
hot—displaying volcanoes and geothermal
energy. Others are enlightening—both in
terms of the history they tell and the northern
lights they have managed to collect. They
display anything from giant whales to tiny turf
houses, from the history of fishermen to that
of chess master Bobby Fisher, and from the
work of a president to that of the public work-
er. There are paintings in some, porcelain in
others; design on display in many, destruc-
tion of nature depicted in others. There is a
museum of music that literally rocks and oth-
ers depicting the lives and works of literary
people that certainly rock as well. Then there
are those that shock, such as the collection
of male organs. The museums are many; the
choice is yours.
SUPPLEMENT COMPILED BY ALËX ELLIOTT, ELLIOTT BRANDSMA, EYGLÓ SVALA ARNARSDÓTTIR, MARK ASCH,
MICA ALLAN, VALA HAFSTAÐ AND ZOË ROBERT.
INTRODUCTION BY VALA HAFSTAÐ. COVER PHOTO BY PÁLL STEFÁNSSON.
From the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum in Svalbarðseyri, Northeast Iceland.