The Heritage Craft School (isl. Fornverkaskólinn) is a project with the aim to educate and inform

people about traditional building craft as an important way to preserve this cultural heritage. It is run by Skagafjörður Heritage museum which preserves many turf houses. The primary materials in this building tradition are natural resources sourced from the local environment, such as stone and turf.

Knowledge of old building methods is a prerequisite for being able to maintain the nation's turf

house heritage. To fulfill their goals the Heritage Craft School has since 2007 organizes courses and workshops focusing primarily on turf and stone construction and timber framing but along also hosts courses on window making in cooperation with local college, driftwood processing and loom weaving in cooperation with the Skagafjörður Heritage museum.

The building crafts that are taught and have remained here in Iceland were also used in other

countries but the knowledge has vanished and therefore many students of the school come from

abroad to attend their courses. The school has trained close to 400 participants, both from within the country and abroad, including heritage professionals and enthusiasts (Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga, n.d.).

The Heritage Craft school received a recognition from the Icelandic Heritage protection association for its contribution to preserving icelandic building craft. Several specialists on cultural heritage have come from abroad to attend the courses of the school. This shows that the school has international influence in preserving cultural heritage (Minjastofnun Íslands, 2023).