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Here you'll find the Summer Programme at Árbær Open Air Museum 2026.

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Registration has begun for a summer course for children on Viðey Island. Limited number of participants – First come, First served!

Reykjavík Maritime Museum

The theme of this exhibition is the mysterious disappearance of a French naval vessel.

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Reykjavik City Museum

International Museum Day I 18th of May 2026

On May 18th, International Museum Day 2026 will be celebrated under the theme “Museums Uniting a Divided World”. Admission to all exhibition venues, which are part of the Reykjavik City Museum, is free on this occasion.

International Museum Day I 18th of May 2026
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

Coast Guard Vessel Óðinn - Guided Tour on Board

Welcome aboard the historic Coast Guard Vessel Óðinn for a guided tour. The tours happen daily at 13:00, 14:00, and 15:00 from 1 March to 31 October, focusing on the Cod Wars and the vessel's rescue history.

Coast Guard Vessel Óðinn - Guided Tour on Board
Árbær Open Air Museum

Guided tour at Árbær Open Air Museum

The guide takes guests to all the main houses of the museum and tells their stories. The guided tour is in English and takes just over an hour.

Guided tour at Árbær Open Air Museum
Reykjavík Museum of Photography

Opening I Heartstrings: intimacy in the everyday

Welcome to the opening of Þórdís Erla Ágústsdóttur exhibition, Heartstrings: intimacy in the everyday, Thursday the 21st of May at 16:00 Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Professor at faculty of History at the University of Iceland, will address the guests. Arnfríður Valdimarsdóttir, Director of Culture, will open the exhibition. Refreshments.

Opening I Heartstrings: intimacy in the everyday
The Reykjavík Museum of Photography

Exhibition Talk I Heartstrings

We welcome guests to join an Exhibition Talk in Icelandic with Þórdís Erla Ágústsdóttir, the photographer behind the exhibition, Heartstrings: intimacy in the everyday, on Sunday the 31st of May at 14:00. In her photographs, Þórdís Erla seeks to capture the intangible aspects of people’s everyday lives within their homes and in other places that are important to them. She focuses on the relationships and feelings between individuals. Nature is an integral element of the environment and affects emotions and behaviour. To illustrate how intertwined these two are, Þórdís Erla inserts powerful atmospheric images of the Icelandic landscape alongside the photographs of people. Þórdís Erla has photographed the people—most of whom are close to her or individuals she knows well—over long periods of time. She selects moments from everyday life, small instances that tell a larger story.

Exhibition Talk I Heartstrings
Árbær Open Air Museum

Whittling Workshop - Registration Required

The week of 6-10 July, a fun one-day mini-course in wood whittling will be held at Árbær Open Air Museum with carpenter Bjarni Þór Kristjánsson. The course is from 13:00-16:00.

Whittling Workshop - Registration Required
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Ex­hib­i­tions

Frost. Photo: Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdóttir
Reykjavík Museum of Photography
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Winter scenes I Skotið in Fókus 2026

"Winter scenes" is the title of the third ex­hib­i­tion by mem­bers of FÓKUS, the Am­a­teur Pho­to­graphy Club, which will take over the ex­hib­i­tion space SKOTIÐ at the Reyk­javík Mu­seum of Pho­to­graphy.

Drawing by Auguste Mayer
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

A View of the North

How could the mys­ter­i­ous dis­ap­pear­ance of a French naval ves­sel cause a turn­ing-­point in the his­tory of the Icelandic na­tion?

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.

Ancient Roots of Árbær in the museum building Landakot/ÍR House

An­cient Roots of Ár­bær

An ex­hib­i­tion about an ar­chae­olo­gical ex­cav­a­tion tak­ing place at the Ár­bær farm site.

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.

Suðurgata 7 │A Reykjavík home around 1925
Árbær Open Air Museum

Suður­gata 7 │A Reyk­javík home around 1925

Suður­gata 7, built in 1833 in cent­ral Reyk­javík, was en­larged in stages. It has been in its present form since 1883.

Inside the exhibition "Hábær House 1950"
Árbær Open Air Museum

Hábær House 1950

The ex­hib­i­tion Hábær 1950 seeks to shed light on the liv­ing con­di­tions of a poor fam­ily around the year 1950

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.

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