Glaumbær Turf Farm & Museum

Really enjoyed visiting Glaumbær Turf Farm & Museum! From the outside the turf houses look quite small and simple, but once you step inside you realize it’s like a maze of connected rooms showing how families lived here in the past. It feels very authentic and gives you a real sense of history. One of the coolest surprises is that in one of the rooms there’s an old wardrobe, and hidden inside it are stairs leading up to a secret space upstairs. It feels a bit like stepping into Narnia, but in real life! Discovering details like this makes the visit really fun. The whole site is beautifully kept and the surrounding views are stunning as well. Definitely worth stopping by if you’re exploring the north of Iceland. Take your time here – there’s more to see inside than you might expect from the outside.

That's a must go to place, if you're really into Icelandic history. Quite interesting as you get to enter some real and well preserved turf dwellings. There are rooms for everything, from food storage, to repair shops, knitting places, baby rooms, animal housing, you name it. A whole life organized into these well-isolated houses where people lived in the ages where no wood or hard stone was available in this land of fire and ice.

Amazing, moving and educational place. It's the ultimate immersive experience as visitors walk through room after room in the complex. Can almost hear and feel what it's like to be living in that time.

Great place with lots of explanations of what the pieces mean. There’s a lot of original items and great staging of the rooms. Totally worth the price of admission and it’s a nice stop on the ring road

Historic turf farm and open air museum offering a glimpse into Iceland’s rural past in North West Iceland. You pay to go into this well maintained museum of turf houses. There’s a gift shop with local souvenirs. It takes about 30 minutes to look at each house. Information is displayed inside each to know what you’re looking at. Of particular interest are the bedrooms with 2 each of little twin beds, used to sleep, close knit with just human body heat in the cold winter. Turf allows good insulation by itself as there was no heating. Painted porcelain bowls were used. The assortment of kitchen utensils is impressive.

Interesting stop to understand the culture from 18-19th centuries. Artifacts were original. Takes 30-45 mins to visit all the 16 rooms. The greenery was lovely.

Definitely worth the time to visit. The history is so interesting and the way they built this place was just crazy to see how they lived back in the late 1800s here. Fun place to visit

Interesting and enthralling buildings. Also, Vala who manages the coffee room is very nice and friendly. And she bakes the cakes and grinds the coffee beans.