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The Westfjords Heritage Museum (Byggðasafn Vestfjarða) is in Ísafjörður, Iceland, the "capital" of the Westfjords (Westfjords). The museum is based on maritime heritage and gives visitors an insight of the local Westfjords fisheries and fishing industry as well the life of the fishermen, their families and the coastal culture through the centuries. The Museum is located at an old historical area called Neðstikaupstaður. The museum has made a policy concerning preservation of boats to restore them to their previous condition and to keep them seaworthy. The main focus is also to maintain knowledge and skills concerning their repair and maintenance and make sure that the knowledge is being passed between generations.〔(Byggðarsafn Vestfjarða / Bátar )〕 The museum was opened in Turnhúsið an old house built in 1784, the 5th of June 1988 on a day dedicated to seamen, called Sjómannadagurinn (Seamen's day) a public holiday in Iceland which is held first weekend in June to pay tribute to the country's seafaring past. Most of the museum collection consists of various historical things regarding the fisheries and the fishing industry around the Westfjords. Among interesting things is a collection of 190 accordions, a collection of valuable old boats and different things found by divers in the seas around the fjords. The museum is a popular point of interest. Visitors from cruise ships that come to Ísafjörður are frequent guests. A local theatre group dressed in Icelandic national costumes makes a play of the daily life of the beginning 19th century, where they sing and dance to a music and put the fish bacalao out in the sun to dry. In 2013 during the summer opening time, 12,000 visitors came to visit the museum.〔(Byggðarsafn Vestfjarða / Fréttir og tilkynningar / FRAM slúttar vertíðinni í ár )〕 In a local newspaper ''Morgunblaðið'' from 5 June 1988 is an article about the opening ceremony of the museum where it says: ''That without a doubt no place in Iceland has so many historical things from the fisheries and the fishing industry as the Westfjords''〔(Timarit.is - Leita )〕 The Museum is managed by Ísafjarðarbær, Súðavíkurhreppur and Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður. Byggðasafn Vestfjarða is opened during summertime 15 May - 15 September from 9am to 6pm. == Museum History == The first ideas about establishing heritage and maritime museum came from a man named Bárður G. Tómasson. In 1939, he wrote a newspaper article suggesting that that people should unite together in a project that involved a restoration of an old boat model called sexæringur. The boat should be an indicator of a regional heritage and maritime museum. The idea was successful. Few years later, in July 1941, the Ísafjörður heritage and maritime museum was established and Bárður was elected the first chairman. In the early decades little changed concerning the museum and its activities although in the year 1947 the museum came under control of the town council of Ísafjörður and the county committees. It was not until in the beginning of the 1970s with the restoration of Neðstikaupstaður that the museum found its future home in Turnhúsið which opened on Sjómannadagurinn the year 1988.〔(Byggðarsafn Vestfjarða / Um safnið )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westfjords Heritage Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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