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The Reykjavík City Museum's Christ­mas Bazaar takes place on Saturday, 30 November, between 11:00 and 17:00 at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum. All welcome!

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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
Fjölskylduskemmtun
Reykjavík Maritime Museum

Christmas Bazaar

Reykjavík City Museum will be reviving the old Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, November 30 at 11:00-17:00. The Bazaar will take place at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum at Grandagarður 8. Entry is free and everyone is welcome!

Christmas Bazaar
Borgarsogusafn.is
Árbær Open Air Museum

Christmas Programme

Celebrate Advent and Christmas in the old-fashioned way at the Árbær Open Air Museum on Sunday, 8 December, and 15 December from 13:00 to 16:00.

Christmas Programme
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Ex­hib­i­tions

Laimonas Dom Baranauskas│Years in Between
Reykjavík Museum of Photography
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Lai­mo­nas Dom Baranaus­kas│Years in Between

"Years in Between" is the title of an ex­hib­i­tion by Lai­mo­nas Dom Baranaus­kas in ex­hib­i­tion space Skotið.

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?

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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