Two new exhibitions opened on the town's birthday

The summer at the Hafnarfjörður Museum of Local History begins with an exhibition on cod-heads and the occupation.

The summer opening at the Hafnarfjörður Folk Museum begins on the town's 112th birthday, 1 June, with the opening of two new exhibitions. A themed exhibition about grey seals opens in the Packhouse, and a new occupation exhibition has been set up on Strandstíg. Admission to all the museums of the Folk Museum is free, and all five of its buildings are open from 11 am to 5 pm every day throughout the summer.

Culture for all

The Packhouse usually has three exhibitions running at once: a permanent exhibition on the town's history, a toy exhibition, and a themed exhibition. A new themed exhibition, which has opened in the Packhouse's foyer, focuses on the town's monkfish and small-boat fishing industries. For centuries, the people of Hafnarfjörður went to sea in rowing boats, but at the beginning of the 20th century, the mechanisation of small-boat fishing began, developing until it reached a peak in the town during the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition seeks to shed light on this history.

^{The exhibition has been set up. Hafnarfjörður during the occupation years 1940-1945 on the Strand} 

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the occupation of Iceland during the Second World War, the Hafnarfjörður Museum of Local History has opened the photography exhibition „Hafnarfjörður during the Occupation Years 1940–1945“. The exhibition has been set up on Strandstígur along the harbour, from Drafnarslipp out to Herjólfsgata, where around 50 photographs shed light on this period in the town's history.

All information about the collections of the Hafnarfjörður Museum of Local History can be found here.