Explore East Iceland’s Top 5 Art and Culture Spots
East Iceland, often missed by tourists rushing ’round the well-known south coast, actually has a special charm, and its raw beauty goes way beyond just its fjords and mountains. That isolated region holds a ton of culture and art hotspots just waiting to get discovered. What a treat that East Iceland mixes up a kind of rugged scenery along with such interesting, thought-provoking, art that’s always coming up. I reckon you may get inspired and changed if you give East Iceland’s cool artistic places a look! So, let’s get looking into the cool parts you really must see when exploring East Iceland. Read our full review: East Iceland art and culture Full Review and Details.
1. Skaftfell Cultural Center in Seyðisfjörður
If you like a place that just is art, well then Seyðisfjörður is one pretty spot! In it is Skaftfell Cultural Center, and that’s really the town’s artistic heart, wouldn’t you know. It does way more than you think, because it has visual arts and cool stuff for artists too. It sort of hosts really cool exhibits, like bringing both well-known and fairly new people showing off their work to you. I’m pretty sure it has cool events and workshops going on that bring you up close in artsy practice. Plus there is a cool bistro on location as well. Oh, what a special bonus! You get awesome snacks, and some inspiration from a cool surrounding spot. Anyway, I can vouch from how it pulls people from every place, Skaftfell brings every sort of person to engage creatively right there where the gorgeous nature gets mixed up in art. See Prices, Availability & Reserve Now (Skaftfell Cultural Center).
2. Petra’s Stone Collection at Stöðvarfjörður
You may think there can’t ever be a museum just out of rocks! Well, Petra’s Stone Collection at Stöðvarfjörður gives a charmingly odd example about someone really fond of stuff around here and really passionate in building some super creative space for the land. The stone museum there gets you looking really curiously at stuff, as in just a private garden a nice local named Petra Maria Sveinsdóttir prettied up. From when she was young, she collected tons of stones which hold just all the neat colors of the islands minerals together. You probably would enjoy going down wandering where different colors of the gardens and the stones together have a neat relationship. Petra’s effort to lovingly showcase a huge array of minerals helps her make something, in a way, beyond an art exhibition which expresses her bonding close up with where she lives! The museum opens doors every season so visitors too have the chances to treasure exactly all of earth’s genius. Read our full review: Petra’s Stone Collection Full Review and Details.
3. French Naval Museum in Fáskrúðsfjörður
Does anyone ever get lost in the history around French sailors being in Iceland? Yes, at Fáskrúðsfjörður there’s an interesting French Naval Museum honoring when these Icelandic shores housed France’s sailors. As such, visitors do appreciate hearing interesting things which tell just all about these deep links tying French seamen back centuries past through exhibits of old artifacts as well stories kept forever for anyone now looking in. It turns into, apparently, rather important historical insight showing, somewhat, our interwoven cultures going far deep that way while offering a thoughtful sight which makes that area’s culture feel uniquely worldwide, you know? If you like checking interesting background tied with our sea peoples that once occurred there, so definitely check Fáskrúðsfjörður and appreciate exactly what kind maritime relationship that port had years then past too, huh! See Prices, Availability & Reserve Now (French Naval Museum).
4. East Iceland Heritage Museum in Eskifjörður
Going for an understanding related specifically on Icelandic lifestyle around old East Iceland times? Just a heads up! Swing over to Eskifjörður toward finding something interesting shown inside East Iceland Heritage Museum so viewers could look over old items that give light on Eastfjords. Those display pieces there do illustrate things, like local folk history ranging via tools used while old age fishing. That museum in itself comes off with more than something only historical as it keeps close that past memories people cherish since gone. Seems such ways tend bringing all guests near so old living and how so society back back felt during tough situations where so living from tough terrains were how Icelandic communities once did operate onward. Definitely pop over here and that does bring to life tales behind them Easterner and helps to think back toward Icelandic way via culture passed off since generations beyond today there, obviously. Read our full review: East Iceland Heritage Museum Full Review and Details.
5. Langanes Art Trail
What about venturing for seeing works displayed across pure Icelandic outdoor views instead museums actually, ok? Look around the route referred called as just Langanes Art Trail located near what so most outer most regions coming from northern coasts reaching here! This adventure showcases awesome sculptural artifacts blended on terrain out where these routes wind through which viewers love pausing out along so gorgeous lands blended around creations while. Expect pieces made blending land nearby adding context towards showing so creativity works shown just throughout that trip taken around nature along that trail pathway which will sure enrich all journeying around those areas. This provides interesting views coming toward Iceland from which arts does bond along Icelandic outdoor area, as shown through this trip especially. People must think back seeing what kind different light they see about lands near Langanes Peninsula from Icelandic cultural view shown around. See Prices, Availability & Reserve Now (Langanes Art Trail).
