Reyk­javík City Mu­seum
Our His­tory

Árbær Open Air Museum

Growing Pains is an experiential exhibition emphasizing creativity, education, imagination, and playfulness. Visitors get an insight into the world of primary school children in Reykjavík between 1898 and 1974.

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Reykjavík Museum of Photography

Photographer Agnieszka Sosnowska in collaboration with poet Ingunn Snædal has created a visual with the verbal narrative that asks, “What happened here?”

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In the Building Preservation Centre you can get advice on how to proceed before construction begins.

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Our locations

Events

Viðburðir
The Settlement Exhibition

The Settlement Exhibition Aðalstræti - Guided tour

Reyk­javík’s his­tory in a nut­shell. At Aðalstræti 10 and 16 in Reykjavík’s city centre, you can explore how the city developed from Iceland’s settlement period to the present day. Stretching underground from Aðalstræti 16 – which houses the archaeological remains of a 10th-century Viking longhouse – to the central Kvosin area’s oldest remaining building at Aðalstræti 10, this historical exhibition traces Reykjavík’s development from a farm to a city.

The Settlement Exhibition Aðalstræti - Guided tour
Fræðsla
Árbær open museum

Guided tour at Árbær Open Air Museum

The guide takes guests to all the main houses of the museum and tells their story.

Guided tour at Árbær Open Air Museum
Viðburðir
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

The Coast Guard Vessel Óðinn - guided tour on board

We offer daily guided tours on board the Coast Guard vessel Óðinn from March to November, focusing on the Cod Wars and the vessel's rescue history. Welcome on board!

The Coast Guard Vessel Óðinn - guided tour on board
Saga
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

Are you learning Icelandic?

The Reykjavík City Museum offers a free guided tour of the Maritime Museum specifically for those learning Icelandic. The tour is scheduled for Sunday, October 6, from 14:00 to 15:00.

Are you learning Icelandic?
Prjónakaffi
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

Yarn Exchange and Knitting Meetup

We invite you to join us for a Yarn Exchange and Knitting Meetup at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum on Sunday, October 6 at 14:00-16:00. There, you’ll get the opportunity to exchange yarn that is not of use to you for material for your next knitting project. All leftover yarn is welcome.

Yarn Exchange and Knitting Meetup
Myndlist
Reykjavík Museum of Photography

Guided tour in Lithuanian

Welcome to a guided tour in Lithuanian on Sunday, October 20, at 14:00 at the Reykjavík Photography Museum. Jurgita Motiejunaite, an artist and teacher at the Lithuanian Mother Language School, guides visitors through the museum's current exhibition, RASK.

Guided tour in Lithuanian
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Ex­hib­i­tions

Agnieszka Sosnowska│RASK (en)
Reykjavík Museum of Photography
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Ag­nieszka Sosnowska & In­gunn Snædal│RASK( en)

Have you ever tried to col­lect broken pieces to­gether with the be­lief that you can fix them? Can you re­turn those bits to their ori­ginal state? Are they ever the same? Are they stronger or weaker than they once were?

Eva Ágústa Aradótt­ir│Queer and Autistic
Reykjavík Museum of Photography
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Eva Ágústa│Queer and Aut­istic

"Queer and Aut­ist­ic" is the title of an ex­hib­i­tion by Eva Ágúst­a Aradót­tir in ex­hib­i­tion space Skotið.

Celebrating the New Republic 1944. Photo: Sigurhans Vignir
Árbær Open Air Museum

Cel­eb­rat­ing the New Re­pub­lic 1944

Cur­rently on view in the mu­seum build­ing "Læk­jar­gata 4-6" - an ex­hib­i­tion on the oc­ca­sion that this year marks 80 years since Icelanders foun­ded a re­pub­lic and se­ceded from the union with Den­mark.

Growing Pains
Árbær Open Air Museum

Grow­ing Pains

The ex­per­i­mental ex­hib­i­tion "Grow­ing Pains" gives you an in­sight into the world of primary school chil­dren in Reyk­javík between 1898 and 1974.

Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson│We are Earth – We are Water
Reykjavík Maritime Museum
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Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson│We are Earth – We are Wa­ter

In the video work, We are Earth – We are Wa­ter, we get an un­usual in­sight into sub­lime forms in nature, a po­etic view of the mi­cro in the mac­ro, which is en­abled by tech­no­lo­gical in­nov­a­tions.

Fish & folk – 150 years of fisheries
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

Fish & folk – 150 years of fish­er­ies

The ex­hib­i­tion Fish & folk – 150 years of fish­er­ies at the Reyk­javík Mari­time Mu­seum is about the his­tory of the Icelandic fish­er­ies, from the time when row­ing boats gave way to large fish­ing ves­sels in the late 19th cen­tury, through to the 21st cen­tury.

Milestones by Richard Serra, 1991.
Viðey Island

Mile­stone­s│Richard Serra

For the Reyk­javík Arts Fest­ival of 1990, a work of art by US sculp­tor Richard Serra was crea­ted on West is­land.

The Imagine Peace Tower
Viðey Island

The Ima­gine Peace Tower

Work of art concei­ved by the leg­end­ary art­ist, mu­si­cian and peace ad­voc­ate Yoko Ono as a beacon for world peace.

Consumption – Reykjavík in the 20th century
Árbær Open Air Museum

Con­sump­tion – Reyk­javík in the 20th cen­tury

The ex­hib­i­tion aims to show the huge and rapid changes that took place in con­sump­tion pat­terns in Reyk­javík dur­ing the 20th cen­tury – to ex­plore the factors that af­fected con­sump­tion, and how tech­nical ad­vances, gov­ern­ment ac­tions, wars, and events in Ice­land and abroad in­flu­enced the daily life of the people of Reyk­javík.

The Wheel Age
Árbær Open Air Museum

The Age of Carts

Even though the wheel is a an­cient in­ven­tion it ar­rived late to Iceland. Trans­port over long dis­tances were in prin­ciple the same from the time of set­tle­ment to the 19th cen­tury, namely on horses

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