Glaumbaer turf farm and museum

The complex is thirteen turf houses, six of them with front-facing gables, joined so that you move from room to room without stepping outside. The walls are laid from unusually small stones, in a way rarely found elsewhere in the municipality. Inside, the farmhouse is far bigger than it looks from the yard: room after room of domestic tools and displays on how a farming household lived and worked. The information boards explain how turf houses were built from grass and earth, and what is being done now to document and preserve them. A café on site serves coffee, tea, homemade cakes and the soup of the day, and there is a gift shop by the entrance.

• Low ceilings: the ceilings and doorways inside the turf houses are very low. Mind your head.
• Allow more time: the farmhouse has many rooms and displays, and a quick stop tends to turn into a long one.
• Read the boards: they cover how the houses were built from grass and earth, and the work of preserving them.
• On site: a café with coffee, tea, homemade cakes and the soup of the day, plus a gift shop.
• Facilities: free toilets and drinking water on the site, and the museum is fine for children.

Glaumbær lies a few kilometres off the Ring Road in Skagafjörður, in Langholt west of Héraðsvötn. No bus comes here, so the last stretch is by car. The gravel car park sits at the entrance, with an information board beside it, and the turf houses stand within a few dozen metres of it. Free toilets and drinking water are the same distance away.

Best: the summer season, when the museum is open every day without arranging anything in advance.

Avoid: turning up in winter without contacting the museum first — winter opening depends on the number of visitors.

Most of the visit is spent indoors, so wind and rain are no reason to skip it. On a wet day the café is part of the point.