About us
Náttúrustofa Vestfjarða (Westfjords Natural
History institute) is a regional institute involved in natural and historical
researches. It opened in 1997 and is based in Bolungarvík, Hólmavík and
Bíldudalur covering the entire Westfjords aerea. It is one of seven regional
research centres of this kind in Iceland united in a project called SNS.
The institute conducts basic and applied
researches on Icelandic nature with emphasis on zoology, botany, archaeology,
ecology and geology. It maintains a collection of scientific specimens and
database. It assembles literature about Icelandic nature and history. It
manages two museums, the Ósvör Maritime Museum and the Natural Museum both in
Bolungarvík.
The main aim of the institute is to collect
information about the Nature of Westfjords and make it available to the
community.
Directive Board
Staff
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