Skagafjörður Folk Museum
The Skagafjörður Folk Museum is an outdoor settlement museum that was established in 1948 when the National Museum of Iceland acquired the rights to use the old town of Glaumbær at Langholt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Varmahlid
Village
Skagafjörður Folk Museum
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Skagafjörður, Northwest, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.61098° or 65° 36′ 40″ northLongitude
-19.50467° or 19° 30′ 17″ westOpen location code
9CQ2JF6W+94OpenStreetMap ID
way 431230441OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noWikidata 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.