The Herring Era Museum

Amazing and very informative museum - you can find all the info on the herring industry, it's history in Siglufjordur, you can see the machines used, the boats, the nets, how they used to be made... I mean, really everything. In three buildings. Awesome. And do t forget to go to the fourth building - restaurant with delicious food.

Great museum, immersive exhibits, so many artifacts excellently presented. A bit light on interpretive signs in some of the buildings, but the artifacts are presented so engagingly I didn't mind. We went with a group and received a herring salting demo and some herring samples; the demo was a wonderful way to appreciate the work of the herring girls.

Terrific museum with many real life objects displaying what life people were living in the herring era. The price also includes the boat house and the folk music museums, both of which similar quality to the main one. Also very decent WCs. Highly recommend.

What a great museum! Excellent display, beautifully made. Very interesting and super informative. Top recommendation!

Neat museum sprawling across multiple buildings that would have been part of the "process" during the boom in herring fishing and processing in the early 1900s. You can board a boat, learn about the factory, and even educate yourself on the lives of those that worked in this community at that time.

This museum was very fascinating. Learned about how the herring industry transformed the Iceland economy and introduced women's and worker's rights. There are actual restored buildings as part of the exhibit. Amazing to see the actual buildings as they were used. Our guide was excellent and our tour was topped off by having herring samples on rye bread along with Icelandic aquavit. Just a stellar experience.

Really fun museum in this once prosperous herring town. The whole museum consists of three main building, including salt station (the red house where you can purchase ticket), fish factory and boat house. Recommended stay time: 1.5hour The exhibition on the first floor of salt station mainly tell the history about herring fishing. You can go upstair but mind your head and there can you see the life from the herring era. I can tell everything is carefully arranged. Fish factory nearby show some parts of the fish oil and fish meal industry. You can smell the odor from that time. Several fishing boats laid besides the "dock" in boathouse. Some of them are accessible.

Lovely recreation of the herring fishing era. Only thing missing is the smell! Kind staff helped us out. We are very grateful.