June 2 – Húsasafn Museum and Lava Museum

This morning it was off down the road... 

 to the Húsasafn Museum.  The museum had an open air museum that featured a number of old style buildings including some sod homes,

a smithy and a stuffed store room,

a church,

and a little school house set up like a....school house.

There were some larger wooden houses that were farm houses.

All of the buildings were furnished with period furnishings.

There was a  separate set of buildings that had many displaysthat featured a large number of tools, clothing, boats, and other items from everyday living.

There was a third part of the museum that they referred to as their technology museum.  It had boats, 

fire trucks, 

farm implements, radios, cars 

and all manner of other items of a “technical” nature.  It was all very interesting.

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More photos of the Húsasafn Museum
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We then headed to another museum, the Lava Museum.  This one was extremely well put together and told a lot about the various volcanic eruptions over the recent centuries and

the various volcanoes.  One of the most impressive displays was a column of "magma" that rose to the underside of a map of Iceland.

One room had a panorama photo showing a number of the major volcanoes. You stand on a specific square in the floor and point to a spot on the picture...and then information about that place popped up.

After this and lunch we headed back to through some of the countryside on the southwest coast of Iceland before ending at the airport where we dropped Jessica off for her flight home.  We are staying at the same hotel as before, Hotel Baron, in Reykjavik for the night.  We said our goodbye to Tara (she was leaving on a later flight, staying at a hotel near the airport) and settled in for some repacking.  We took a walk back into Reykjavik for some dinner and then it was to bed.