DUVUGARÐAR MUSEUM

This old farmhouse has been perfectly preserved and allows us to get to know the daily life of 20th century Feringian farmers. The first thing to do is to find the entrance: a small wooden door located behind the house. You then enter a room with a dirt floor that served as a kitchen, a real "smoke room" or roykstova with its central open fireplace and a hole in the roof to let the smoke out of the fireplace, but which also served as the only source of light. The kitchen, cluttered with all kinds of utensils, had beds in alcoves for the farm workers. They lived well protected from the cold outside. The farmers slept in the next room. This room was equipped with a floor, and furnished in a rustic but comfortable way because this room was also used as a living room to welcome guests and to meet on Sundays.

In the 18th century, an additional room was added to the traditional farmhouse, which was called glasstova because it had checkered windows. This habit only appeared on the archipelago at the same time. The fireplace in the roykstova was also used to heat the glasstova. Adjacent rooms gradually replaced part of the house built in the late eighteenth century. To the north, more rooms were added to allow the parish priest to stay in Saksun when the church was built in the hamlet in 1858. The furniture and utensils date from the 19th and early 20th centuries.