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Seamen's Monument-December 2024
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Dec 22, 2024

　　Ísafjörður's big bronze Seaman's Monument depicts two fishermen with their nets and commemorates those who've lost their lives at sea.

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Seamen's Monument
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　　Ísafjörður's big bronze Seaman's Monument depicts two fishermen with their nets and commemorates those who've lost their lives at sea. ...
Old Town
Ísafjörður
　　Ísafjörður's historic quarter borders it's eastern edges. Start explorations in Tangagata to see gabled, tin-clad homes, often brightly painted in patriotic russet red or blue, trimmed with white. Look out for the dates from the late 1890s and early 1900s above the doors. ...
Whalebone Arch
Ísafjörður
　　Of minor interest is the whalebone arch made from a whale’s jawbone in the central town park. ...
Culture House
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　　The intensely close-knit nature of Westfjords life is evoked in the 2nd-floor displays in what was once the town hospital. Look out for vintage scales for newborns, a disturbing hacksaw and an eye-watering enema device, and the touching testimonies of former patients. 　　The ground floor is occupied by the town...
Museum of Everyday Life
Ísafjörður
　　Celebrating the magic of the mundane is the aim of the powerful, creative displays here, where shoes, books and mini-movies each come with personal narratives and story fragments. As an intriguing insight into life in the Westfjords it's poetic, thought-provoking and beautifully done. ...
Westfjords Heritage Museum
Ísafjörður
　　Part of a cluster of historic wooden buildings by the harbour, this museum is in the Turnhús (1784), which was originally a warehouse. It's crammed with fishing and nautical exhibits, tools from the whaling days, fascinating old photos depicting town life over the centuries, and accordions. To the right is...
Ísafjarðarkirkja
Ísafjörður
　　More than 740 clay birds, arranged in flight soar above the altarpiece of this modernist church.They were made by locals during a group art project. Look out too for the brass plaques showing the sites of graves that were covered by the current church, when it was rebuilt after a...
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