Edinborg Cultural Centre

Edinborgarverslun raised the house by the Pollur in 1907. The firm was half Scottish, Copland and Berrie of Leith, next door to the city Icelandic calls Edinborg. Rögnvaldur Ágúst Ólafsson drew it, and it was standing on 7 December that year; the house and its pier were for a long time among the largest structures on Ísafjörður. Kaupfélag Ísfirðinga bought it in 1937 and cured fish there for a good fifty years. Shortly after 1945 a drying chamber went in, which let fish be dried indoors through the winter. The house stood empty towards the end of the century. People from the town's arts and cultural life then formed a company, Edinborgarhúsið ehf., which bought the building in 1992 and rebuilt it, much of the work done as volunteer labour. It opened again on its hundredth birthday in 2007 and has run since as an independent cultural centre. Edinborgarsalur on the ground floor is 221 square metres, with a stage, a sound system, lighting and backstage space, and Bryggjusalur can be opened into it. Listaskóli Rögnvaldar Ólafssonar, the town's art school, has been in the house since 1999.