The Akranes Folk Museum was the first one to open at the Akranes Museum Centre in 1959. It was located at the ancient manor of Garðar. When the Gardar house had become to small for the museum the new museum building was opened in 1974.
The Folk Museum preserves a comprehensive collection of exhibits from former times, bearing witness to farming, housekeeping and social conditions in and around Akranes.
The Museum also displays preserved tools and equipments of doctors and midwives, old cars, a smithy as well as the tools and instruments of carpenters and other tradesmen. There should be something of interest for everyone in the Folk Museum.