We had a couple of spare days in Keflavik where there isn’t much to do. We took a walk along the coast one morning about 5k to the Viking museum. We knew it would be closed but it’s a nice walk and you also pass through the little house in the moss. The museum building is very interesting and good to photograph itself. It’s quite small.

I visited museum with my 3,9 and 12 year old children. The only part that stood out is the Viking boat and VR experience from 1238.is I truly recommend the owners to get rid of the rest of the rubbish and make it nice. It has a great potential, but everything is so outdated. The God exhibition is pointless and takes half of the space. I didn’t see people spending there more than 2 minutes in there. Make it more entertaining, new interesting posters which make sense and sell more variety of cakes…

Gave it a go after a cancelled flight being stuck here a day. I really very much enjoyed it. Good for 2 hours if you read every single cars, which I did. I especially like you are allowed to enter/experience the Viking boat. There was one black maze area, I think with saga illustrations/ cartoons that I feel locals understand. As an American, I had no idea what was going on. Could use a sign or two, at least at the beginning.... otherwise, very well done and worth a visit.

Good place to visit nearby to the Blue Lagoon. Has some of the original icelandic homes just outside. A both interactive and non history of the vikings. Great repluca of a viking ship in the middle. The cafe wasnt running but free coffee available.

Visited to kill time while it was pouring down. It's a bit exciting to see how the soup Islendingur was built but the overall exhibition is a bit messy. There was some cardboard exhibition of Viking Gods but that was just to fill in the space. Would be more fun to make it more "hands on".

Viking World is a nice, though rather small museum. If you have a little knowledge about the Viking Age, the only really interesting thing is the replica of the Gokstad ship. It is great that you can go on the ship and look at all the details. We were in luck, for they had a temporary VR-experience, which was lots of fun.

Interesting museum in a fun town. The museum is beautifully designed, with the viking ship Icelander being their main showcase. The ship is a 100% accurate replica of an authentic viking ship that was found and dug up in the 18th or 17th century. So this ship is the closest to any viking ship that you will find. The Vikings were during 1000 the masters of sailing and were among the had the best ships in the world and sailed from Europe to Iceland and later they sailed to NA and found North America. Some local shipbuilder decided to build this replica and he sailed on it to USA in the year 2000 to celebrate the 1000th years since discovering America. The museum had some wonderful other showcases. I recommend the museum to everyone that wants to learn about Iceland's historical culture and story.

If you have 1600 ISK burning a hole in your pocket on your way to the airport, then by all means, stop by and witness the space filling secrets of the vikings. Seriously, there's a reproduction of a viking long ship that you can walk on. That much is really cool. The rest of the museum is just a monument to doing the bare minimum possible to fill a room. Highlights include: - A couple nails. - Some beads - A couple plaques with things most 5th graders already knew about Lief Erickson. - A drawing of a tower in Newport, Rhode Island. - A breakfast buffet (the cafeteria might actually be bigger than the exhibit space) - An entire floor of decorative dioramas that look like someone story boarding a Power Puff Girls episode. Altogether I spent about a half hour there including 10 minutes wondering where the rest of the museum was, and learned a grand total of zero things. Might recommend skipping it unless you really hate money or really love dioramas.

This place is in the middle of nowwher. If you are going by Public Transport it is not easy to get to and farnkly of all the things to do in Iceland probaly the lest impressive once you get there. Staff are pleasant but the diplays are inimal and it took about 30 minutes to go through.

Much better than many museums I have visited. Hands on exhibits helped to learn how Vikings lived. The opportunity to walk the deck of the Islendingur was powerful! The Virtual Reality experience of a battle was a blast!