Herleif Hammer – Trap The Faroe Islands

Tjóðskjalasavnið (National Archives)

by Herleif Hammer, Armgarð Weihe

Tjóðskjalasavnið (National Archives) is located near Landsbókasavnið, with offices in the old postmaster’s house and with a reading room and archives acr...

Tjóðsavnið (The National Museum)

by Herleif Hammer, Armgarð Weihe

Tjóðsavnið (The National Museum) was established in 2018 by merging the country’s national museums of culture and natural history. The museum has departmen...

Landsbókasavnið (National Library)

by Herleif Hammer, Armgarð Weihe

Landsbókasavnið (National Library of the Faroe Islands) is located at J.C. Svabosgøta 16 on the fringe of the centre of Tórshavn. The building from 1980 was...

Museums of cultural history and heritage on the Faroe Islands

by Herleif Hammer, Armgarð Weihe

The cultural heritage is looked after and managed by a number of cultural institutions, most of which were established by Løgting acts in the years after 1948,...