Reyk­javík City Mu­seum
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The exhibition opens 17. January

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

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Events

Borgarsogusafn.is
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
Borgarbókasafnið Grófinni

Future Lunch Box

What will we put in school lunch boxes 100 years from now? Let´s use our imagination and draw the content of future kid´s lunch boxes in an open drawing station of Reykjavík City Museum. No participation fee, all welcome.

Future Lunch Box
Fjölskylduskemmtun
Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavíkur

Children's relationship with animals

How will our relationship with animals be in the future? Will we have pets in the year 2125? What kind of animals would they be? Take a look at 100-year-old pictures of children and animals in different settings. The pictures are used as inspirations in an open drawing station on children´s relationship with animals at the Museum of Photography on the 6th floor. No participation fee, all welcome.

Children's relationship with animals
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Ex­hib­i­tions

FÍSL – The Icelandic Contemporary Photography Association
Reykjavík Museum of Photography
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Weathered │ FÍSL – The Icelandic Con­tem­por­ary Pho­to­graphy As­so­ci­ation

Weathered: a group ex­hib­i­tions with works by mem­bers of FÍSL are presen­ted in the Reyk­javík Mu­seum of Pho­to­graphy and is part of the Icelandic Pho­to­graphy Fest­ival 2025.

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.

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.

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

Toy Exhibition: Come and play!
Árbær Open Air Museum

Come and play!

The ex­hib­i­tion fo­cuses on chil­dren's cul­ture, toys and games in the last cen­tury. It is housed in a former church and sports hall called Landakot. The ex­hib­i­tion is in­ter­act­ive and it suits chil­dren in all age groups. Open at the same time as the mu­seum.

From High Mass to High Jump
Árbær Open Air Museum

From High Mass to High Jump

The story of the build­ing Landakot is told in the ex­hib­i­tion From High Mass to High Jump. The house was built in 1897 as the first cath­olic church in Ice­land since the Re­form­a­tion. In 1930 it be­came a sportshall and re­mained as such un­til 2004 when it was re­lo­cated to the mu­seum.

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