Iceland, 8: The Glaumbaer Farm Museum

There are many museums in Iceland. Apart from those in Reykjavik, most are small and locally-focused. The Glaumbaer farm museum was on our way as we made for the Snaefellsnes peninsula in western Iceland, and Rickie Stevie gives it three stars for the quality and authenticity of its presentation of farm life over the centuries. It was inhabited until 1947, although there is substantial evidence of buildings on the site going back to the 11th century. Most notably, like much of traditional rural Iceland, Glaumbaer is a sod-built collection of buildings. 

On the way, a very old sod-built chapel

Glaumbaer; note the sod retaining was and its herringbone design

The buildings in the foreground are out-buildings, storage,
tools, machinery

Church adjacent to farm

Long hallway in the main building, off which there are a variety

of rooms: storage, pantries, kitchens, priest's office, etc.; on the

floor above are more living quarters, for farmer and wife, children,

tenant workers, seasonal workers, etc.

Every room had excellent explanatory information,

in both Icelandic and English too