Judges upstairs, prisoners downstairs
One of the most remarkable buildings in Reykjavík is the prison, Hegningarhúsið at Skólavörðustígur 9. This large build...
Spring is around the corner
It is a remarkable day, equally so in the springtime like today, and in the autumntime. These two days have roughly the same amou...
Askja waking up?
If the volcano Askja/Dyngjufjöll, which is on the northern side of the highlands, between Vatnajökull and Mývatn, starts to erupt, it could ...
Tjarnargata by Tjörnin
Tjarnargata, runs from Fógetagarðurinn, where the first settler Ingólfur Arnarson built his settlement in 874, to Hringbraut, along Tj...
Helgi's Great Corridor
"Rakel, my wife, and I loosely summed up the value of the gift to the Icelandic Museum of Art, around one hundred million". Says Helgi...
2 Giants
On the eastern side of Hljómskálagarður, not far from each other, stand two giants in the cultural history of Icelanders, the contemporaries Jónas H...
Exciting times at The Reykjavík Art Museum
There are exciting times ahead at the Reykjavík Art Museum, both in Hafnarhús and at Kjarvalsstaðir, which is cele...
Goðafoss the ever so beautiful waterfall
In Skjálfandafljót by Ljósavatnskarð and Bárðardalur in Suður Þingeyjarsýsla is one of the most beautiful and most v...
A moment at the National Museum
Rúnar Gunnarsson's exhibition (1944) Not the blink of an eye, but eternity, just opened at the National Museum of Iceland and...
Reykjavík Harbor 110 years old
Before the time of airplanes, or submarine communications cables, ships were Iceland's only contact with the rest of the world...
Spring is in the air at Reykjanes
It is such a short drive, and extremely beautiful to get out to Reykjanes from the capital. Especially at this time of year w...
The night yes the night
It is great, as a tourist (yes and as a local), now that the air is getting warmer to walk around and explore Reykjavík in the evenin...
War & Peace at Austurvöllur
Shortly after new years 1975-1976, Icelanders broke political relations with Great Britain. Unique in the history of NATO, an...
Hannes the first minister
Hannes Hafstein became Iceland's first minister in 1904, when a special ministerial office in the Danish government for Icelandic a...
The propeller shield
On the corner of Geirsgata and Tryggvagata, at the southern end of Reykjavík Harbor in the center of Reykjavík, there is a fun monument o...
B S Í
At Hringbraut stands BSÍ, the capital's transport hub. A house that was built almost 60 years ago, in 1965, and has long since become far too small. An...
Bike & chair
The Design Museum of Iceland (Hönnunarsafn Íslands), in Garðabær, has in its collection about 5,000 items from the beginning of the last cen...
The exhibition Viðnám
Science and art go hand in hand in the Icelandic Museum of Art's exhibition, Viðnám, which is an interdisciplinary exhibition where art...
Fljót at Tröllaskagi
The northernmost settlement in the eastern part of Skagafjörður is Fljót. Snowy countryside, south of Siglufjörður on Tröllaskagi. There...
Ash Wednesday
Although Iceland converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism in 1550, almost 500 years ago, Ash Wednesday has survived here as a holiday. It is p...