Bjarnarhöfn – Shark Museum

This summer we went to Iceland with the children, particularly looking at the Snæfellsnes peninsula - and also went to the Bjarnarhöfn Shark Museum, a private shark museum.

The Bjarnarhöfn farm is already mentioned in the conquest book from the 11th century, when the Viking Björn is said to have settled here, probably a son of the well-known chief Ketill Flachnase, who lived around 890 AD. came to Iceland with his family.

The current master of the house, the Icelandic Hildibrandur Bjarnason, has today set up a museum on the farm with his family - the Shark Museum about the capture and processing of the Greenland shark.

The museum is small and idiosyncratic – and it invites us to try out the taste of Hákarl. In small cubes – and with lots of dark bread on the side.

Here are our impressions:

Here is the link to the museum's homepage:

http://www.bjarnarhofn.is/

Update:

Hildibrandur Bjarnason died on November 16, 2017, two days before his 81st birthday. He leaves behind a wife and children. The farm continues to be managed and the museum is also still open.

[Translated from here.]