Heritage museums in North Iceland
Channel: Visit North Iceland
Date: 2022-03-02

Can you imagine growing up without electricity or running water? Iceland was among the poorest nations in the world in the latter half of the 19th century. Agriculture is, understandably, sensitive to changing weather and cold periods or natural disasters that have often resulted in famine. Almost everyone lived on farms in the countryside, making the farm the cornerstone of society.

To walk through a museum that preserves the way in which people lived in the past inspires gratitude for the vast improvements in our ways of life through the decades. Any comparison between how people used to live in Iceland during the settlement and now is difficult but also enlightening and entertaining, something every Icelander and anyone who visits Iceland should undertake to research.