Sagnaheimar Folk Museum in the magical Westman Islands
Sagnaheimar Folk Museum in the magical Westman Islands
The Folk Museum of Vestmannaeyjar – the Westman Islands – is a museum built on old traditions. In addi...
museums
Spend Time in Fantastic Fjallabyggð
Spend Time in Fantastic Fjallabyggð
Siglufjörður and Ólafsfjörður are two small fishing villages on the very northern tip of the breathtaking
Tröllaskagi Pe...
Árnessýsla Heritage Museum
Árnessýsla Heritage Museum
The history of the Árnessýsla Heritage Museum began in 1953, almost 70 years ago. In the beginning, it mainly held objects from t...
GUNNLAUGUR SCHEVING
GUNNLAUGUR SCHEVING
The artist who challenged traditional views of art
At the beginning of the 20th century, Icelandic art was dominated by landscapes.Bor...
Vibrant Culture in Nuuk
Nuuk Art Museum displays the rich artistic history
of Greenland’s artists
The Nuuk Art Museum is an integral part of cultural life in Nuuk, as it hosts a p...
Art, colors & making a living
Art, colors & making a living
The collection of Ásgrímur Jónsson (1876-1958) in Bergstaðastræti, is a part of Listasafn Íslands. Ásgrímur was not only a p...
Gunnar Örn in Hafnarborg
Gunnar Örn in Hafnarborg
In Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður's art museum, the exhibition In the depths of your own consciousness is now a retrospective of the work...
The museum at the Harbour
The museum at the Harbour
Not many people realize that Reykjavík is the largest shipping town in Iceland. There is also the biggest and largest museum in the...
Árbær Open Air Museum
Árbær Open Air Museum
Reykjavík City Museum was founded in 2014 when The Settlement Exhibition, Reykjavik Maritime Museum, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, V...
The Bobby Fischer Center
It is housing a memorabilia of the 11th World Chess Champion BOBBY FISCHER and the Selfoss Chess Club.
The American Bobby Fischer became the World Chess Cham...
The World of Ásmundur
The World of Ásmundur
International Museum Day is held every year on May 18 by the International Museum Council. Admission to many museums is free, such as t...
Guðmundur = Erró
Guðmundur = Erró
One of our greatest artists is Guðmundur Guðmundsson, born in 1932, known as the artist Erró. He is one of the few Icelandic visual artists ...
Back to the past
Back to the past
Árbær is an old farm just east of Elliðaá in the land of Reykjavík. It can be said that today Árbær / Árbær Open Air Museum is...
MUGGUR – Guðmundur Thorsteinsson 1891–1924
MUGGUR - Guðmundur Thorsteinsson 1891–1924
National Gallery of Iceland Between 2.10. 2121 - 13.2.2022
At the National Gallery of Iceland is a newly op...
The National Gallery of Iceland
The National Gallery of Iceland
Exhibitions
The National Gallery of Iceland’s primary emphasis is collecting 20th and 21st-century Icelandic art; howe...
The National Gallery of Iceland Exhibitions
The National Gallery of Iceland
Exhibitions
The National Gallery of Iceland is situated in four buildings in Reykjavík: the main building at Fríkirkjuvegu...
The two culture houses on Hverfisgata
The Culture House on the left was designed by the Danish architect Johannes M Nielsen. The National Theater on the right was designed by Gu...
The House That Disappeared – Eldheimar
None of Heimaey’s 5,300 inhabitants had ever expected that a volcanic eruption could make them homeless. But on 23rd January 1973, earthquakes started to shake ...
A fairytale home – Petra’s Stone & Mineral Collection
In the tiny town of Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland, a young girl named Petra began collecting stones in the mountains surrounding her home—and continued to do s...
The Icelandic Phallological Museum
Visit one of the most unique museums on the planet
The Icelandic Phallological Museum is one of the most unique museums in the world and one of the mostvisi...
