The Skogar Museum complex is very large and consists of a Folk Museum, Transportation Museum (vehicles), an Open Air Museum (with many old buildings), a nice restaurant, and sells souvenirs. We spent a few hours perusing all of the complex and could easily have spent a few more hours. This was the largest museum of all the ones we visited throughout our 30-day Iceland trip. If you have limited time, this one museum is the one to go to since it really does a great job at you giving you an overview of Iceland throughout the ages. I also liked the fact that the Skogar waterfall is easily accessible--although there is a stairway right next to the waterfall in case you want to see it from the top. Warning! We thought a closed building nearer to the waterfall was the museum and thought the museum was closed. Actually, the big museum is further right of the waterfall. Look for it!

I really underestimated this place. It is separated into 3 museums and each needs a fair amount of time to see. There is the folk museum who interesting historical items, an open-air museum with houses you can get in and see how they used to be and a technical museum with a lot of exhibits about technology, transportation and much more. Unfortunately, we visited the museum 1 hour before closing and we barely managed to quickly walk from every room in the two indoor museums and outside from the outdoor houses (they were closed by the time we finished the other too). So, if you want to really see this museum leave aside at least 2 hours if not more.

Nice museum with many informations about Icelands history. Open-air museum, where you can see different types of buildings historically built in Iceland. Buildings can be visited from the outside, as well as enter inside, where interiors characteristic of a given period are recreated. You can learn a lot about early life of Icelandic settlers. Very impressive are the small houses hidden basically inside the small hills. This type of peat houses blend in perfectly with Icelandic landscapes. You feel here the real Icelandic culture from close.There was also an interesting exhibit with cars . It's worth stopping by.