Skógar

Skógar ( Isl Forest) is a small community in the southern Icelandic community Rangárþing eystra with 25 residents and is 4 m above sea level.

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Skógar is located 154 kilometers by road from Reykjavík and lies between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and volcanoes Mýrdalsjökull.

Here are the district school and a regional museum. The river flows Skoga few kilometers into the sea.

The name of the place suggests that the area in earlier times is probably been forested.

Its most famous attraction of the place is the 60 m high waterfall Skógarfoss.

From Skógar from the trail Laugavegur, which goes over the Fimmvörðuháls and Þórsmörk up to Landmannalaugar begins.

Open-air and Heritage Museum: Byggðasafnið að Skógum

In Skógar is the year-round home - and open-air museum Byggðasafnið í Skógum, which was founded in 1949.

Museum director is Þórður Tómasson ( born April 28, 1921), who sometimes still even leads guests through the collections and in addition to English and other languages ​​also speaks German.

One finds in the style of the period furnished Torfhöfe and other buildings, mostly from the 19th century, a church and a small school. A transport museum with a large hall full of cars, boats and small aircraft and a larger museum building with utensils, artisanal and artwork are located there.

A striking exhibit in the museum is the Fjalaköttur (board cat), in which a heavy stone on a board acts as a mousetrap. It is also demonstrated. Another exhibit are knitted from wool mutton condoms and the Kuhblase that was used in earlier times to the weather forecast. Another major role of the besegelte eight-oar Pétursey (after an island mountain near ), which was used for fishing in earlier times.