Monday, 20-May-2024


One last post about Iceland.

I’m sad to be writing this final post, but also a bit amazed that there’s so many from such a short period of time… Iceland really is an amazing country, and a great place to explore and adventure.

It’s good that I should end my adventures in Iceland with a full overview of the land of Iceland itself – the Perlan Museum, a Natural History Museum that charts Iceland from when it first broke above the surface of the ocean through to the present day.

There’s a lot of amazing exhibits, and I took pictures of all of them, so please peruse and enjoy the placards and displays that kept me busy for multiple hours in the afternoon. Perlan stayed open a bit later than many other museums, which helped me see everything after an already-full day of adventure, but even then I don’t think I caught every section… I know I missed the planetarium section, which definitely bummed me out a bit because it showed the Northern Lights.

I did get to see the Volcano demo, though, where they somehow piped in Volcano smell! It was a surprisingly pleasant smell of smoldering moss with a hint of sulfur, and really added a neat depth to the video.

Anyways. Yeah – Perlan. Great museum, cool building with interesting architecture, and glorious exhibits. Great end to a great bit of adventure in a great country!

Ohh man, one quick piece that I adored. In the pictures above you can see a story projected onto a Redwood round, that was gifted to Iceland by the US government on Iceland’s 1,100 year settlement anniversary. The redwood round is from a tree approximately 1,300 years old. I mean, how much of a power move is it to say, “Hey, Iceland, here’s a tree that’s been around longer than people have been on your soil”. Just… dang, man.

At least they didn’t do something like “Hey Iceland, here’s a Native American artifact. It’s 1,100 years old, just like your settlement! It was celebrating their 19,000th year in North America!”