The mission of the Akureyri Botanical Garden is to develop and maintain plant collections for display, education, research, conservation and enjoyment.

The aim of Akureyri Museum is the collection, preservation and study of objects relating to cultural history and the daily lives of people in the Eyjafjörður. Many articles and photographs portraying the life and work of past inhabitants of…

Árnes is the oldest house in Skagaströnd, and the only one of its kind in the area that was considered possible to preserve. It was renovated by the municipality and opened in 2009. Árnes is a unique example of living conditions in the first part of…

The Sigurgeir´s Bird Museum is located on the farm Ytri-Neslönd beside Lake Mývatn. It was established following the pioneering work of Sigurgeir Stefánsson who lived at the farm. Sigurgeir’s bird museum is considered the largest known  private bird…

The relatives of the poet Davíð Stefánsson from Fagriskógur gave to Akureyri the house at Bjarkarstígur, which the poet built and lived in until his death in 1964. His living quarters are on the upper floor of the house, preserved in the same…

Friðbjarnarhús now houses an exhibition of 20th century toys owned by Guðbjörg Ringsted. Among other things one can see dozens of dolls and toy cars. On the upper floor is the old meeting room of the Independent Order of Good Templars, which donated…

Old Farm Laufás is recorded in history shortly after the settlement of Iceland. These has been a church there since the earliest days of Christianity.

The farm of Grenjaðarstaður dates back to Iceland’s settlement over a thousand years ago. For a long time it was one of the area’s chief farms and became the site of a church, parsonage and a post office. With a floor area of about 775…

The Skagafjörður Heritage Museum was established in 1948, following the departure of the last inhabitants at Glaumbær Farmhouse in 1947.

There are two permanent Exhibitions in the Culture House, the Maritime Exhibition and the Man and Nature – 100 years in Þingeyjarsýslur region. An Art Gallery is located on the top floor and a multipurpose showroom is located on the ground floor.…

The Húsavík Whale Museum is a non-profit organisation, founded in 1997. It’s foremost aim is to provide detailed and interesting information about whales and their habitat. The Whale Museum, along with the University of Iceland’s Research Center…

The museum’s collection comprises thousands of items. The natural history collection contains a large number of Icelandic birds and mammals, the most popular of which is the polar bear. There are exhibits on a number of people from the…

Located at Snartarstaðir farm, two kilometers from the village of Kópasker, this Folk Museum presents a unique collection of local objects showing daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a wide array of embroidery, woven goods, knitted…

The so called Nonni´s House, which the author and the Jesuit priest Jón Sveinsson, Nonni, lived in during his childhood, has been carefully remodelled into a memorial museum. Nonni’s House, which was built in 1850, is one of the oldest houses…

The Ólafsfjörður Museum of Natural History is primarily a collection of more than 100 species of birds. The Museum possesses most of the bird species to be found in Iceland, as well as a collection of birds’ eggs, a small plant collection, foxes in…

Reynistadur is a farm and a church site, approximately 10 kilometres to the south of the fishing town Sauðárkrókur.  Its original name was “Staður on Reynisnes”.  Earlier it was a mansion and the seat of the earl Gissur Þorvaldsson in…

The Glaumbær Farmhouse is said to have stood on the hill at Glaumbær since the Age of the Settlements, around 900 AD. The present buildings vary in age; the most recent addition having been built in 1876-79, while the oldest are believed to have…

This collection of sundries is neither a historical museum, agricultural museum, appliance collection, household collection nor key collection, but all of those rolled into one and so much more. Sverrir Hermannsson was born on 30th of March 1928, a…

The Icelandic Aviation Museum is located by the Akureyri airport.

The Exploration Museum is dedicated to the history of human exploration. The stories displayed here are different in periods and places, but there is one thing that unites all of them: the common need of the human being to go always beyond physical…