On Sundays we speak Danish
Jón Svavar Jósefsson
On Sundays we speak Danish
In 2018, Iceland celebrates 100 years as a free and sovereign state. On this occasion Árbær...
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Articles
The House that Disappeared
The House that Disappeared
The Eldheimar Volcano Museum on the Westman Islands
None of Heimaey’s 5,300 inhabitants had ever expected that a volcanic eruption ...
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The Icelandic band Flekar
The Icelandic band Flekar release its debut album ‘Swamp Flowers’ 8. october. There listeners will find lo-fi indie music with psychedelic undertones. We want t...
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The Warmth of Nordic Fur
The Warmth of Nordic Fur
Feldur Workshop specializes in the design and production of high quality fur products
Feldur Workshop is an Icelandic company, si...
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I’ve Been Looking For A Punch Bag All Day Martyna Daniel
I've Been Looking For A Punch Bag All Day
Martyna Daniel
Opening night: October 25th 18:00-20:00
Open until October 27th, 13:00-18:00
"I've been looking...
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Four artists chosen to exhibit in Gallery D 2019
Four artists chosen to exhibit in Gallery D 2019
More than 130 artists expressed an interest in participating in the D-Gallery Series at Reykjavík Art Museum –...
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Another Space / Eygló Harðardóttir
Another Space / Eygló Harðardóttir
Artist talk
18.10.2018 at 20:00
Eygló Harðardóttir and Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir
On the occasion of Another Space, a...
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Óðinn Coast Guard Vessel under repair
Óðinn Coast Guard Vessel under repair
The former Coast Guard Vessel Óðinn was pulled into the shipyard of Reykjavík’s old harbour this morning 15th October t...
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Júlíana Sveinsdóttir
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir (31 July 1889 – 1966) was one of Iceland's first female painters and textile artists. Taught initially by promine...
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Living Earth: Outline of the Geology of Iceland
Living Earth: Outline of the Geology of Iceland
By Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Halldór Kjartansson
A reader´s journey through the geological history of Iceland....
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MELCKMEYT 1659 Underwater Archaeological Survey
Lunch Lecture in English
MELCKMEYT 1659
Underwater Archaeological Survey
At Reykjavík Maritime Museum Thursday 11 October at 12:10
Free admission
Marine ar...
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Beyond the mountains
Beyond the mountains
Where nature imposes silence
Fjallabak means ‘beyond the mountains’ in Icelandic. It’s the name of an old walking route that meanders thr...
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Westman island Heimaey in eruption 1973
In the photo at In photo, Eldfjell towers over the houses of the town of Vestmannaeyjar. Although volcanic ash had covered part of the town by February 17, 197...
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Commerce between Iceland and Russia
Commerce between Iceland and Russia – Continuous trade since 1953
Icelanders expanded their fisheries jurisdiction from three miles to four on 15 May 1952. As ...
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The Highlands of Iceland
The Highlands of Iceland
Photo by Friðþjófur Helgason
Nothing in Iceland prepares you for the stark, desolate, raw beauty of the barren upland plateau called...
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Art souvenir – Bertel Thorvaldsen. BY Margrethe Floryan
Art souvenir – Bertel Thorvaldsen
BY Margrethe Floryan
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) is one of Denmark’s best-known artists. The son of a carver from Icela...
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No Man’s Land
No Man's Land
The title of this extensive exhibition refers to the Icelandic highlands and certain ideas regarding them which Icelanders have long held...
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Kristín Jónsdóttir (1888–1959)
Kristín Jónsdóttir, also Kristín Jónsdóttir Stefánsson, (1888–1959) was a pioneering female Icelandic painter. A member of the group of artists who associated w...
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Hótel Smyrlabjörg
Hótel Smyrlabjörg
The Icelandic Country Hotel Experience
Imagine bedding down for the night, under a warm duvet, in the middle of the Icelandic countryside. H...
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Iceland Discovered
It will forever remain unknown who was the first man to step on the shores of the island in the North Atlantic now called Iceland. It is, however, well known th...
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