Closed during the Easter holidays
The Museum will be closed from Thursday, April 5th until Monday, April 9th.
Opening hours April and May are weekdays from 1pm-4pm.
Our guests can find more information about opening hours and admission costs under the English tab here on the museum's home page.
We wish you happy holidays!
MID-WIVES AND CHILD BIRTH
Was your first bed a drawer? What herbs were helpful for pregnant women? Do you know any mid-wives in East Iceland? What equipment did they use? Will you share with us some memories about child-bearing, being pregnant, birth or mid-wives?
The medical center in Egilsstaðir and East Iceland Heritage Museum would like to offer patients in the waiting room a way to sooth some curiousity and have fun until the doctor calls on them.
Small exhibitions will be set up in both waiting rooms at the medical center in Egilsstaðir. Each exhibition will stand for 3-4 months. The first is about mid-wives and child birth.
Guests can read a variety of stories and information (in Icelandic), look at pictures of mid-wives and connected artifacts, and listen to soothing lullabies played in music box style. Guests are also welcome to write a few of their own memories of child birth or mid-wives (in any language!) in a book which the museum will preserve.
We look forward to working with the medical center on these exhibitions and hope our guests enjoy themselves.
Don't touch the ground!-Children's games
What games do children play these days? What toys did children use during the past centuries?
Come to our exhibition about children's games and find out!
Don't touch the ground is a traveling exhibition. It is the result of a cooperation project to try a new approach to data research for collecting modern data. The approach is named in Icelandic "samtímasöfnun", and museums and 5th graders all of the country have participated in the project during the past 3 years.
The East Iceland Heritage Museum in Egilsstaðir offers you to come and take a look for yourself. Guests have the opportunity to try out games - new and old - and learn more about this approach for collecting data.
Formal opening Tuesday evening, March 13 at 6:30 pm.
Open from 1-4 pm on weekdays from Tues.March 13-Fri.March 30 and at the same time during the weekend of March 17-18.
Everybody is welcome. No charge.
We persuade you to also look at the project's website:
www.thjodminjasafn.is/ekki-snerta-jordina
Courses in sewing, knitting and other handiwork
Coming to Egilsstaðir by plane or ferry boat?
Would you and your group like to participate in a course to learn how to do handiwork like Icelandic women learned?
Next summer the museum will be displaying some of its many beautiful and amazing works of eastern Icelandic women.
We would like to explore interest in the possibility to offer foreign groups an opportunity to learn knitting, crochet, needle-binding, tatting or other kinds of tapestry decorating. Groups of 8-12 participants may be able to receive a 3-7 day course in one or more of the above in English.
The perfect way to spend a week in East Iceland, see sights, have fun, and learn tradtions!
The travel agency in Egilsstaðir is also prepared to help tourists with accomodation and more. Please contact us with some ideas or more information about your group if you're interested - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or the travel agency at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .