Festival in the capital
Festival in the capital
Culture Night in Reykjavík starts early, before nine o'clock when the Reykjavík Marathon starts. The first Marathon was 37 years ago,...
Capital Area
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...
Camping in Iceland
Camping in Iceland
The cheapest way to spend the night travelling in Iceland is to go to a campsite, whether you have a tent or a caravan. And there are many...
The one and only Grafarvogur
The one and only Grafarvogur
If Grafavogur, a neighbourhood in Reykjavík, were an independent town, it would be the fourth largest in the country. More than ...
And… history goes on
And... history goes on
The Settlement Exhibitions is on the corner of Túngata and Aðalstræti in downtown Reykjavík.
From the Settlement Exhibition, sho...
Strong houses in Iceland
Strong houses in Iceland
New and old buildings and others are being constructed in Hafnarfjörður, the third most populous town in the country.
The ground...
Gröndalshús – Gröndal‘s House
Gröndalshús – Gröndal‘s House
This charming red house was the home of Benedikt Gröndal (1826-1907), writer, illustrator,
translator and natural scientist. H...
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...
Klambratún
The Klambratún park occupies land in the district of Norðurmýri formerly divided into small-holdings under copyhold (heritable perpetual lease). The Norðurmýri...
Farmsteads in Reykjavík
Eskihlíð
Eskihlíð and the Hlíðar area
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries drainage of marshland began in Reykjavík territory. The drained land was ...
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...
Torfhildur Hólm’s House
Torfhildur's House
Torfhildur's house was built at Laugavegur 36 in 1896, moved to Reykjavik's West Side in 2015 and restored.
The writer Torfhildur Þors...
The hill in the city
The hill in the city
Öskjuhlíð in the middle of the capital is only 90 m lower than Møllehøj, Denmark's highest mountain, which is 170.86 meters above sea le...
The Street of Grettir the Strong
The Street of Grettir the Strong
Grettisgata, the next street over from Laugavegur in the city center of Reykjavík, is named after Grettir "The Strong" Ásmun...
Austurvöllur
The Central Square where people gather in Reykjavík
In olden times, when Reykjavík was simply a farm, Austurvöllur (the East Field) was its best grassfield, ...
Art at the Reykjavík Art Museum
Art at the Reykjavík Art Museum
Kjarval's portrait of Erró, 1948
Jóhannes Kjarval self-portrait
In Kjarvalsstaðir, the Reykjavík Art Museum is now sh...
Listval
Exquisite gallery opens in Harpa
Listval exhibits Icelandic art
Elísabet Alma Svendsen and Helga Kjerúlf have worked in art and design on various projects,...
“People of Iceland need to reap the benefits of their energy sources”
Interview with Iceland’s New National Energy Director-General,
Halla Hrund Logadóttir
Halla Hrund became Director-General of the National Energy Authority...
A town in a city
A town in a city
Reykjavík is a fun city, strange yes, young yes, with buildings that are so diverse, different but still bind the city together, forming a ...
