The Breiðafjörður Boat Museum has during the last years collected more than twenty old boats from the Breiðafjörður area and saved most of them from destruction. Some are kept in the condition as time has left them, others are being repaired and still others have been or are being completely rebuilt. This mission is going on and therefore the museum is a living workshop as well as a showplace. The primus motor is Aðalsteinn Valdimarsson, an aging boatbuilder raised in the islands of Breiðafjörður, who is at work in the museum almost every day. You can visit him there although there are no specific opening hours. The Breiðafjörður Boat Museum is located in the same building as the Tourist Information and the Hlunnindasýningin, a few hundred meters before entering the village of Reykhólar. Because of limited facilities, however, many of the boats are kept elsewhere.

Hlunnindasýningin is a museum dedicated to the gifts of Nature in the Breiðafjörður area and their utilization, especially in the past. The birds provided eggs and meat and the precious eiderdown used in duvets and pillows. The seals provided meat and skin. Here you can learn about the treatment of these goods as practiced for centuries and even up to the present day. The Breiðafjörður area is unique as even in the hardest times and worst famines in Iceland the people here never starved, thanks to the abundant gifts of Nature. In the museum you can see many of the birds that were utilized, and, as a contrast, the gigantic white-tailed eagle. The museum is in the same building as the Tourist Information, a few hundred meters before entering the village of Reykhólar.

Tel: (+354) 434 7830
hlunnindi@reykholar.is
www.reykholar.is/hlunnindi
Open 11-18 from June 20 to August 10, or by agreement.
Aðgangseyrir kr. 500 nema fyrir börn og aldraða.
Fee ISK 500, children and seniors excepted.