Technical Museum of East Iceland through the window pane
by RicardMN Photography
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Technical Museum of East Iceland through the window pane
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RicardMN Photography
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The Technical Museum of East Iceland (Icelandic: Tækniminjasafn Austurlands), located in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, was established in 1984 as one of four specialized museums in the so-called Eastfjords area of Iceland. The museum later accepted the responsibility of also being a local heritage museum for the Seyðisfjörður area.
The museum´s main focus is on the influx of modern times around 1880 to 1950. Technical innovations in areas such as mechanics, electricity, communications, shipbuilding, commerce and architecture are interlaced with changes in lifestyle in Seyðisfjörður and in Iceland in general. The exhibitions in the old mechanical workshop and the telegraph station seek to recreate the atmosphere of the times they portray. The museum is located in a historical neighborhood that has served an important role in the vast modernization of Icelandic society during the decades around 1900.
Many of the machines and tools are still in working use and they provide an opportunity to have workshops as well as an annual festival held every summer in July.
There is a small shop in the library where you can get books, sweets and souvenirs. (Description from Wikipedia and seydisfjordur.org)
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February 24th, 2020
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