Black-timbered turf houses in the open-air section of the Skógar Museum, with hills behind.

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Skógar Museum

Skógar Museum (Skógasafn) is a regional museum at Skógar, founded in 1949 on the initiative of the collector Þórður Tómasson. It holds some 18,000 objects in a folk museum with the eight-oared fishing boat Pétursey, an open-air museum of turf houses, a church and a school moved from the district, and a transport and technology museum opened in 2002.

When to go

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Mon10:00–17:00

Tue10:00–17:00

Wed10:00–17:00

Thu10:00–17:00

Fri10:00–17:00

Sat10:00–17:00

Sun10:00–17:00

Nearby

Skógafoss

tourist attraction

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