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HUSAVIK MUSEUM

Region: North Iceland
Coordinates: 66.0450° N 17.3583° W

On the main floor of the Culture House in Husavík the new exhibition Man and Nature – 100 years in Thingeyjarsysla, aims to provide insight into man´s relationship with nature in this region in the period 18250-1950, and the subsistence farming that was practised at that time, so that each farmstead was largely self-sufficient.
The maritime is on the Ground floor. It opened in 2002, in a new pyramidal unit. The exhibition includes a large number of boats, many of them built in Husavik, as well as Hrafninn (the Raven), a gift from Norway to the community of Husavík to mark the 1100th anniversary of the settlement of Iceland in 1974.
The exhibition also includes a wide variety of fishing gear, equipment and tools whcich were used in the fisheries, as well as in seal-hunting and shark-fishing. Films can be viewed.