Top Things to do in Westfjords Region
Top Restaurants in Westfjords Region
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Discover the best top things to do in Westfjords Region, Iceland including The Old Bookstore, Dokkan Brugghus, Hot Pots, Sheep Farming Museum, Hversdagssafn - Museum of Everyday Life, Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft, Isafjordur Maritime Museum, The Arctic Fox Centre, Jon Sigurdsson Museum, Skrimslasetrid -Monster Museum.
Restaurants in Westfjords Region
1. The Old Bookstore
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 21 reviews
Reviewed By 489denisek - Denmark, null
If you love books and want to learn more about Iceland’s history visit Flateyri and the Old Bookstore! Wonderful! You can see the family home which is a “living museum” for a small fee and buy new and secondhand books in the bookstore. The secondhand books are priced by weight! We enjoyed our visit! Takk fyrir!
2. Dokkan Brugghus
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 27 reviews
Our micro brewery is a small family business founded in Isafjorður in Octorber 2017 merely for the purpose to make local craft beer and the Westfjords really needed one. Then our first beer was made in the early summer of 2018. The brewery is located at Sindragata 11 but that’s were all of our products are made.
Reviewed By ASilvaggio - Newport News, United States
Nice stop to visit a local brewery with great options for tasting! Located in the picturesque town of Isafjordur, West Fjords, Iceland.
3. Hot Pots
4. Sheep Farming Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 20 reviews
The Sheep Farming Museum is 12 km south of Holmavik by road 68. The exhibition itself tells about sheep farming and concentrates on providing diverse entertainment for all ages. There are also theme exhibitions about history and nature, f.x. about cursed places in the area. Visitors can buy coffee and homemade cakes, ice cream and handicraft from the area and feed lambs with milk from a bottle.
5. Hversdagssafn - Museum of Everyday Life
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 19 reviews
*We happily open our door for groups and enthusiasts all year round outside opening hours. Please leave us message us on FB * Hversdagssafn - museum of everyday life has the main purpose of investigating the mundane and the common, finding the poetry that comes forward when no one is looking. It’s a collection of local voices, memories and story fragments - nostalgic, humorous and thought provoking - curated in various interactive ways. It’s local, as it gives a glimpse to people’s life in the Westfjords, and it’s universal since it touches on the things we all share. Everyday life is a little like dark matter, what happens in between significant moments in life and holds everything together. It’s meeting friends, having dinner, yelling at children, being yelled at, sulking. It’s walking between places, going to work, staying home, worrying, washing up, cutting vegetables. It’s both random and routine. Once you stop and look at it, the beauty of the mundane is revealed.
6. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 289 reviews
The museum is a compination between historical facts abut what happened in Iceland in the 17th century concerning to the witchcraze in Iceland, a period of appr. 50 years and Icelandic folklore connected to magic and sorcery. The museum has guides in several languages, English, Czech, French, Hebrew, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish. The museum also runs a small restaurant where emphasis is placed on seafood including blue mussels which are farmed in the clean fjord. Both the museum and the restaurant are open whole year.The second part of the museum is The Sorcerer's Cottage located 28 km north of Hólmavík.
Reviewed By L_Fenton - Worcester, United Kingdom
This gem of a museum is tucked away in the small village of Holmavik in the West Fjords. It is well worth a visit as it gives a complete history of Witchcraft in Iceland. Containing some original artefacts it is bright and modern inside with English translations for visitors. There are two floors to explore with a full timeline in the upstairs gallery. The Museum has a great cafe and wonderful gift shop / book shop and also has tourist information leaflets. Definitely worth the drive and a stay over in the village.
7. Isafjordur Maritime Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 116 reviews
Reviewed By Tearay
This building is itself an amazing piece of history. Make sure you visit the top floor! With a section on local fishing, accordion culture in Isafjordur, local plants, boat building tools and even an old dive suit this place is a little gem in a beautiful town of the Westfjords.
8. The Arctic Fox Centre
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 136 reviews
The Arctic Fox Centre in Sudavik is the home of Arctic fox research in Iceland with year round projects constantly collecting and furthering knowledge on this inspiring creature and passing this on to our visitors through our unique exhibition which is the worlds only dedicated solely to the Arctic fox. Our outdoor fox enclosure hoouses rescued orphaned pups giving our visitors the chance to "meet" live Arctic foxes while the on site cafe serves freshly made, home baked cakes and pastries as well as more substantial meals of vegetable soups and plokkfiskur fish stew. We look forward to seeing you!
9. Jon Sigurdsson Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 26 reviews
Reviewed By Spence333 - Fox Island, United States
The birthplace of independence in Iceland nicely docent He explains the history back to 800 AD in English and Icelandic now I understand how Iceland went from Norwegian to Danish rule and then to self rule. How the people of the West Fjords survived, etc. Many fine exhibits are there too
10. Skrimslasetrid -Monster Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 51 reviews
Reviewed By laufeyl - Hveragerdi, Iceland
"Very scary!" in a good way were our son´s thought about their monster museum experience. We had read some story about the monsters in the West fjords so this visit was just want our curious boys needed. Good setup and great to spend one hour there. I wish there had been more selections of monster souvenirs, some monster t-shirt or something as we would have liked to buy some.
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