Reyk­javík City Mu­seum
Our His­tory

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.

Welcome to the opening of Kristján Maack's exhibition, Sleeping Giants, on Saturday, 17 January at 15:00-17:00. Free admission and all welcome! Light refreshments. The Mayor of Reykjavík, Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir, welcomes the President of Iceland and guests. The President of Iceland, Halla Tómasdóttir, will open the exhibition. Host - Guðbrandur Benediktsson, director of the Reykjavík City Museum. Sleeping Giants is about the fateful times in which we live. In nature, there are sleeping giants that are slowly awakening. Deep within nature’s core, time has stood still for millions of years. Time is preserved there, along with the essence of nature itself. For millennia, water, oxygen, and all the particles of the land have been stored in the perfect place—compressed under their own immense weight to preserve their origin. In darkness and cold, the core is best preserved. Time has stopped for millions of years, waiting for what will happen next. The mass and its tremendous weight affect everything in its surroundings, both nourishing and suffocating the entire environment through its presence. Icelandic glaciers are disappearing. If you look deep into the core of a glacier, you can find everything that once existed: atmosphere, water, dust, flora, and even the smallest particles of the universe. All of this is stored in nature’s freezer.

Welcome to an exhibition talk with Kristján Maack around the exhibition Sleeping Giants on Sunday, 18 January at 14:00-15:00. Free admission and all welcome! Spoken language Icelandic. Sleeping Giants is about the fateful times in which we live. In nature, there are sleeping giants that are slowly awakening. Deep within nature’s core, time has stood still for millions of years. Time is preserved there, along with the essence of nature itself. For millennia, water, oxygen, and all the particles of the land have been stored in the perfect place—compressed under their own immense weight to preserve their origin. In darkness and cold, the core is best preserved. Time has stopped for millions of years, waiting for what will happen next. The mass and its tremendous weight affect everything in its surroundings, both nourishing and suffocating the entire environment through its presence. Icelandic glaciers are disappearing. If you look deep into the core of a glacier, you can find everything that once existed: atmosphere, water, dust, flora, and even the smallest particles of the universe. All of this is stored in nature’s freezer.