{"id":13809,"date":"2022-02-26T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:10:11","slug":"shark-museum-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/blog\/shark-museum-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Museum (Iceland)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To go off the beaten track in Iceland, we recommend not to follow the classical ring route, but to concentrate on something less conventional, yet, less crowded. In such a way, we could enjoy Sn\u00e6fellsnes peninsula<\/a> \u2013 a great destination in Iceland. In addition to seeing a lot of natural wonders, we enjoyed learning even more in the Shark Museum, also located at Sn\u00e6fellsnes peninsula.
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The Shark Museum<\/h2>\n

The Shark Museum is located at Bjarnarhofn farm on the northern side of Snaefellsnes peninsula. It is open 9.00-18.00 and the entrance fee is about 8 euros. You may pay extra 2-3 euros for the Icelandic alcohol tasting \u2013 it goes well with the shark meat.
\nThe Shark Museum major building is rather small, but contains a lot of artifacts.
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It has been collected by the farmers who have been traditionally fermenting shark meat<\/strong> for years at this farm. The collection includes objects found in the shark stomach, such as seals\u2019 paws, or the shark skin, and teeth.
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The excellent guide shows a movie about the farm.
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Shark meat<\/h2>\n

Their major activity is preparing the shark meat. The Greenland shark meat is actually poisonous. Sharks do not have proper kidneys, which is why the urine is always in their body. Its concentration makes the meat inedible, but there is a way to make it edible. Farmers cut the meat, ferment up to 6 months and let it dry open-air for 3 to 4 months. This is how the major part of ammoniac flies away. People found out such an effect occasionally, after strong hunger and trying to eat the shark meat which had been laying around for a while. Nobody died, they tried it again, and understood it would help to survive. Shark meat contains lots of protein, so useful in the cold climate, as well as quite some minerals and vitamins.
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Nowadays Icelanders are not starving anymore, and the shark meat becomes a treat for tourists, although a bit of it is exported. It is very expensive, but you may buy 100 grams of it as a souvenir to treat your friends back at home.
\nThe culmination of your tour is degustation of the meat.
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It goes well with traditional Icelandic vodka, since they may compete for the definition of what is more disgusting. The shark meat tastes like fish dipped in the nail polish remover.
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Yet, although you think this is culmination, it is not. To end your visit, you will go to the shed where meat is aired. You may feel the smell of it from really far away.
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\nNow you may officially boast to your friends of having eaten deadly shark meat and continue you way in Iceland. After this, it may seem that you have seen everything and may go back home, via Reykjanes peninsula where the airport is based.
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To go off the beaten track in Iceland, we recommend not to follow the classical ring route, but to concentrate on something less conventional, yet, less crowded. In such a way, we could enjoy Sn\u00e6fellsnes peninsula \u2013 a great destination in Iceland. In addition to seeing a lot of natural wonders, we enjoyed learning even more in the Shark Museum,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,2925],"tags":[2698,2754,45],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-iceland","tag-authentic","tag-ethnic-cuisine","tag-museum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ants-in-pants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/11DSC_2931.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9x48k-3AJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13839,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions\/13839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}