Overview
About Sildarminjasafnid - Herring Era Museum
Salting stations and seasonal workers
Róaldsbrakki is a Norwegian herring station dating from 1907. Much of its interior preserves the environment in which women employed during the summer herring season lived. The building places the workers' accommodation beside the story of processing fish for trade. It therefore gives the industry's history a domestic dimension as well as a commercial one: seasonal employment brought people together around the demands of a large, fluctuating fishery.
Factory and harbour
Grána presents a small herring factory of the 1930s and explains reduction processing, the conversion of fish into products such as fishmeal and oil. The Boathouse reconstructs a different scene: part of a harbour with fishing vessels alongside on an evening in 1950. These settings follow the industry from the boats to processing ashore. Read together, the three principal museum buildings show how maritime labour, manufacturing and temporary living quarters belonged to the same economic system.
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