Iceland
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Skagafjörður

Skagafjörður Folk Museum

The Skagafjörður Folk Museum is an outdoor settlement museum that was established in 1948 when the acquired the rights to use the old town of Glaumbær at Langholt.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum and reconstructed farm in Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður, Iceland
  • Also known as: “Glaumbær”, “Glaumbær (museum)”, “Glaumbær Folk Museum”, and “Regional Museum of Skagafjörður”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Varmahlid.

Village
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY 4.0.
Varmahlíð is a small village in , northern . In 2011 around 140 people lived on the eastern slope of the hill for which the town is named. is situated 7 km south of Skagafjörður Folk Museum.

Skagafjörður Folk Museum

Latitude
65.61098° or 65° 36′ 40″ north
Longitude
-19.50467° or 19° 30′ 17″ west
Open location code
9CQ2JF6W+94
Open­Street­Map ID
way 431230441
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1530105
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Skagafjörður Folk Museum” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Glaumbær friluftsmuseum”
  • German: “Freilichtmuseum Glaumbaer”
  • German: “Freilichtmuseum Glaumbær”
  • German: “Glaumbaer Folk Museum”
  • German: “Glaumbær Folk Museum”
  • Icelandic: “Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga”
  • Icelandic: “Glaumbæjarsafn”
  • Icelandic: “Glaumbær (byggðasafn)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Byggðasafn Skagfirðingar”
  • Polish: “Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga”
  • Russian: “Глаумбаер”
  • Swedish: “Glaumbærs hembygdsmuseum”

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Highlights include Glaumbæjarkirkja and Langholt.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skagafjörður Folk Museum”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.