Ósvör Maritime Museum — Attraction in Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður

I love museums that recreate a historical time and place and then allow you to immerse yourself in it. That’s exactly what this one is all about. It was fascinating to be able to walk inside the fishermen’s work and sleeping quarters, which have not only been faithfully restored, but which have hundreds of the kinds of objects these hardy souls used in their daily lives. The fish drying house with racks of actual dried fish was great, and the setting of the bright green sod-roofed structures next to the water was simply beautiful. From that point, on a clear day, you can see all the way to Greenland, and we were lucky enough to see it.

The admission fee is quite modest, well worth the opportunity to imagine what life was like laboring in harsh conditions while making it work as a way of life.

I highly...

Our tour brought us here for a free stop (was closed) but this was the most beautiful location on our visit and gave us a real feeling for what things must have been like here in the past. Reproduction buildings, homes, fish drying stations, and boats. Porta toilets available (thank you) in the front were held down from wind by rope and large slabs of...

Ok, this place was really cool. They had someone dressed up in traditional fishermens clothing and went over what it was like to be a fisherman back then. Explained the different house. The main house housed 11 people. 9 men and 2 women. The size of the place was tiny and you had to wonder about living and working...