Earth Homes - Skogar Musuem - Skogar, Iceland - Earth Homes on Waymarking.com

The Skogar Museum is located in Iceland. It has multiple buildings that show what life was like in Iceland from when it was first settled up until the mid-twentieth century. Homes like these were very common in Iceland for hundreds of years.

From their website:
"The Open Air Museum has a large site, which includes examples of many periods of Icelandic architectural history.
At the lower end of the site is a traditional turf farmhouse, including a baðstofa (communal room where the household slept, ate and worked), kitchen with open hearth, pantry, parlour, store room and cattleshed. Adjacent to the turf farmhouse is a hydro-electric plant, a reminder of the inventive pioneers who first harnessed water power to generate electricity.
The upper part of the site includes a schoolhouse typical of Icelandic country schools in the early 20th century, a church, and a baðstofa built over a cattleshed to benefit from the warmth of the animals, along with a storehouse. At the highest point on the site is a wooden house built at Holt, Síða, in 1898.
To the east of the hydro plant is one of the spans of a bridge built in 1921 across the glacial river Jökulsá, Sólheimasandur."

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Visitors are allowed to go inside the earth homes as well.

Skogar Museum is open 364 days of the year

June - August: 10:00 - 18:00

September - May: 11:00 - 16:00

Building options: Home open for visitors

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