Aðgengi er gott í Aðalstræti. Athugið þó að það er fremur lítil lýsing inni í sýningarsal hjá skálarústinni og þar er gólfið ójafnt á köflum. Leiðsöguhundar eru velkomnir í safnið.
Strætisvagnar stoppa við Ráðhúsið (2 mín. gangur) og í Lækjargötu (5 mín. gangur).

Accessibility for people with disabilities is good. However, the exhibition is dimly lit, and the floor is uneven in several places. Guide dogs are welcome.

Baktus, the city cat, visits The Settlement Exhibition almost daily. During the winter school break, we invite children to follow Baktus's footsteps through the exhibition and see what he finds most interesting! Admission is free for children and their accompanying adults.

Follow in the footsteps of Baktus the City Cat!

Miðbæjarkötturinn Baktus er fastagestur á Landnámssýningunni og kemur næstum daglega. Í vetrarfríinu bjóðum við börnum upp á að feta í fótspor Baktusar í gegnum sýninguna og skoða það sem honum finnst merkilegast! Frítt inn fyrir börn og fullorðna í þeirra fylgd í tilefni af vetrarfríinu.

Fetaðu í fótspor Baktusar miðbæjarkattarins!

Á grunnsýningu safnsins Fiskur & fólk er hægt að fara í léttar og skemmtilegar þrautir. Þrjú mismunandi erfiðleikastig eru í boði eftir getu og aldri barnanna. Ókeypis inn fyrir börn og fullorðna í þeirra fylgd. Opið alla daga 10:00-17:00.
Grunnsýningin Fiskur & fólk - sjósókn í 150 ár fjallar um sögu fiskveiða á Íslandi, frá því árabátar viku fyrir stórskipaútgerð á síðustu áratugum 19. aldar og allt fram yfir aldamótin 2000. Þessi margslungna saga er sögð frá sjónarhóli stærsta útgerðarbæjar landsins, Reykjavíkur. Umgjörðin á Sjóminjasafninu við Grandagarð er viðeigandi, en safnhúsið hýsti áður blómlega fiskvinnslu.
Aðgengi fyrir hreyfihamlaða er gott á Sjóminjasafninu, sérstaklega við inngang Grandagarðsmegin. Lyfta er á milli hæða.
Strætisvagn, leið 14, stoppar nálægt inngangi safnsins, Grandagarðsmegin.

We have family activity boards with fun games that lead you through the museum‘s permanent exhibition, Fish & Folk. Three different levels of difficulty are available depending on the children's ability and age. Entry is free for children and their accompanying adults. The museum is open daily from 10:00 to 17:00.

The main exhibition Fish & folk - 150 years of fisheries, covers the history of fishing in Iceland, from the time when rowing boats gave way to large fishing vessels in the late 19th century, through to the 21st century. This complex story is told from the perspective of the country's largest fishing town, Reykjavík. The setting at the Maritime Museum at Grandagarður is appropriate, as the museum building used to house a thriving fish processing plant.
Accessibility for people with disabilities is good at the museum, especially at the entrance on the Grandagarður side. There is an elevator between the floors.
Bus route 14 stops near the entrance to the museum on the Grandagarður side.

The Reykjavík Maritime Museum welcomes children and their families during the Winter School Break from 22 to 25 February.

Family Game during Winter School Break

Sjóminjasafnið býður börn og fjölskyldur þeirra velkomin í vetrarfríi grunnskólanna í Reykjavík 22.-25. febrúar.

Fjölskylduleikur í vetrarfríinu

Árbæjarsafn er útisafn sem var stofnað árið 1957 en auk Árbæjar eru þar yfir tuttugu hús, sem mynda torg, þorp og sveit. Í Árbæjarsafni er leitast við að gefa hugmynd um byggingalist og lifnaðarhætti í Reykjavík á 19. og 20. öld. Hvert og eitt hús geymir annaðhvort sjálfstæða sögusýningu eða þá að þar er sýnt dæmigert heimili frá ákveðnu tímabili. Á safninu má einnig sjá gamaldags verkstæði ýmiskonar þar sem sjá má dæmigerða aðstöðu, tækni og tól.

Árbær was an established farm well into the 20th century, and the museum opened there in 1957. Árbær is now an open-air museum with more than 20 buildings which form a town square, a village and a farm. Most of the buildings have been relocated from central Reykjavik. The Museum seeks to give an idea of architecture and way of life in Reykjavik in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each house contains either an independent historical exhibition or a typical home from a specific period. The museum also houses old-fashioned workshops of typical facilities, technology and tools.

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

Guided tour at Árbær Open Air Museum

Leiðsögumaður fer með gesti í öll helstu hús Árbæjarsafns og segir frá sögu þeirra.

Leiðsögn á Árbæjarsafni

Fræðsla

Leiðsögn

Hvernig verða gæludýr framtíðarinnar? Verða til talandi hundar eða jafnvel risaeðlur?
Við notum 100 ára gamlar ljósmyndir sem innblástur og teiknum myndir af börnum og dýrum eftir 100 ár.
Frítt inn börn og fullorðna í þeirra fylgd í tilefni af vetrarfríi grunnskóla Reykjavíkur.
Aðgengi er gott á Ljósmyndasafninu. Hjálparhundar eru velkomnir í safnið.
Strætisvagnar: Næstu stoppistöðvar heita Hafnarhús, Lækjartorg, Ráðhúsið (2-5 mín. gangur).

What kind of pets will people have? Will we have talking dogs or even dinosaurs?
Imagine it’s the future! Draw a picture of what you think animals and kids will do together in 2125. We will use 100-year-old photographs as inspiration and draw pictures of children and animals in 100 years.
Free admission for children and accompanying adults.
Access for people with disabilities is good. Service dogs are welcome at the museum.
Public transport: The nearest bus stops are called Hafnarhús, Lækjartorg, Ráðhúsið (2–5 min. away).
Parking places are available by the museum and in neighbouring parking houses in Vesturgata 7 and Hafnartorg.

Reykjavík Museum of Photography offers a fun drawing workshop for children about the animals in our lives during the winter school break. The museum has countless pictures that show children and animals in the old days, but what will our relationship with animals look like 100 years from now?

Our animals 100 years from now

Borgarsögusafn býður upp á skemmtilega teiknismiðju fyrir börn í vetrarfríinu um dýrin í lífi okkar á Ljósmyndasafni Reykjavíkur. Á safninu eru til ótal myndir sem sýna börn og dýr í gamla daga en hvernig verður samband barna og dýra í framtíðinni?

Dýrin okkar eftir 100 ár

Smiðja

Í Kornhúsinu á Árbæjarsafni er sýningin Vaxtaverkir sem gefur innsýn í veröld grunnskólabarna í Reykjavík á árabilinu 1898-1974. Vaxtaverkir er upplifunarsýning með áherslu á sköpun, fræðslu, ímyndunarafl og leikgleði. Hægt er að fá ratleikinn útprentaðan í móttöku safnsins eða nota QR-kóða sem gefinn er upp á safninu. Leikurinn hefst á torgi safnsins.
Aðgengi: Gangstígar á safnsvæðinu eru flestir malarstígar. Inn í flest húsin er gengið upp eitt þrep eða yfir þröskuld. Hjálparhundar eru velkomnir í safnið.
Strætisvagnar: Næsta stoppistöð heitir Árbæjarsafn (1 mín. gangur). Aðrar nálægar stoppistöðvar heita Laxakvísl og Fagribær (5-6 mín. gangur).
Bílastæði fyrir hreyfihamlaða eru við inngang safnsins.
Öll bílastæði eru ókeypis.
Ljósmynd:

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. Today, most people living in Iceland take education for granted and even find it hard to imagine that it was not a given. However, it was not so long ago that education was considered a human right.
You can get a printout of the treasure hunt at the museum reception or use the QR code provided at the museum. The game starts in the museum square.
Accessibility: The museum’s footpaths are mainly gravel. Many historic houses have steps and thresholds. Service dogs are welcome.
Public Transport:
Nearest bus stop: Árbæjarsafn (1-minute walk).
Other stops: Laxakvísl and Fagribær (5–6 minutes away).
Free parking, including blue-badge parking spots opposite the entrance, is available.

During the winter school break, we invite children to a fun treasure hunt inside the exhibition Growing Pains. Admission is free for children and adults accompanying them.

Growing Pains - Can you find these old objects in the school exhibition?

Í vetrarfríinu bjóðum við börnum í skemmtilegan ratleik um sýningu sem heitir Vaxtaverkir. Frítt inn fyrir börn og fullorðna í þeirra fylgd.

Vaxtaverkir - Getur þú fundið skóladótið á sýningunni!

Leiðsögnin verður sunnudaginn 23. febrúar, kl. 14:00 á Sjóminjasafninu í Reykjavík. Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir, táknmálsleiðsögumaður, leiðir gesti um sýningu safnsins Fiskur & fólk - sjósókn í 150 ár. Sýningin er bæði fræðandi og skemmtileg fyrir alla aldurshópa. 

Leiðsögnin er ókeypis og öll þau sem tala táknmál eru boðin hjartanlega velkomin. 

Aðgengi: Safnið er á tveimur hæðum og aðgengi er gott, sérstaklega við inngang Grandagarðsmegin. Lyfta er á milli hæða. Hjálparhundar eru velkomnir. Nánari upplýsingar: https://borgarsogusafn.is/adgengi  

Strætisvagnar: Næsta stoppistöð heitir Grandagarður (1 mín. gangur).

The tour will take place on Sunday, February 23, at 14:00 at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum. 

The guided tour is free of charge, and all those who speak Icelandic sign language are warmly welcome.

On the occasion of the Harvest and Cultural Festival for People with Disabilities and Disability Studies, the Reykjavík City Museum will host a guided tour in Icelandic Sign Language.

Guided tour in Icelandic Sign Language

Í tilefni Uppskeru- og menningarhátíðar fatlaðs fólks og fötlunarfræða býður Borgarsögusafn upp á leiðsögn á táknmáli.

Leiðsögn á táknmáli á Sjóminjasafninu

Reykjavík Museum of Photography

Telma Har│Glam Pics 

The Látrabjarg Rescue by Óskar Gíslason

Reykjavík Maritime Museum

The Látrabjarg Rescue - Film Screening

FÍSL – The Icelandic Contemporary Photography Association 

Weathered │ FÍSL – The Icelandic Contemporary Photography Association 

Árbær Open Air Museum

Growing Pains

Fish & folk – 150 years of fisheries

Viðey Island

Milestones│Richard Serra

The Imagine Peace Tower

Consumption – Reykjavík in the 20th century

The Age of Carts

Come and play!

Aðalstræti

**Date:** Friday 24. January 2025

**Time:** 9:00–15:00

**Place:** Reykjavík Museum of Photography (Reykjavík City Museum), Tryggvagata 15, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland. 




**Registration is now closed**

**Read about Portfolio Review**: Press [here](https://borgarsogusafn.is/en/about-portfolio-review).

**Price**: ISK 18,500. 
(Fee will be collected mid-January 2025).

(*The fee is binding from 15 January 2025 if a participant cancels participation after that date).

### Aldís Arnardóttir
#### Director of Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

Aldís has been the director of Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art since 2021 and has been  involved in the planning and staging of numerous exhibitions and events. Hafnarborg has been a long term partner of the Iceland Photography Festival.

Prior to that Aldís worked as an independent art historian and exhibition curator. She was an art critic at Morgunblaðið newspaper and taught art history at the visual arts department of the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts. She has worked on research in the field of visual arts, written articles in books and catalogues, has taken on roles of a confidant as well as other roles within various organisations.

Her main curatorial projects are: Ásgerður Búadóttir – Facets of Life, Reykjavík Art Museum, 2020. The Wheel, Reykjavik Association of Sculptors, 2019. Kjarval: Líðandin – La dureé, Reykjavík Art Museum 2018. KAPALL, Skaftfell, 2018.
Aldís graduaded with an MA in Art History from the University of Iceland in 2014 and a BA in Art History, with Cutural Studies as a minor in 2012, also from the University of Iceland.


### Anna Tellgren
#### Curator of Photography and Head of Research at Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anna Tellgren is Curator of Photography and Head of Research at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Lars Tunbjörk. Winter/Home (2007), Moderna Museet Now: Inta Ruka (2008) and Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff Alternative Secrecy (2021). The exhibition Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel (2015) has been touring internationally for several years. During 2011 she was responsible for the project Another Story. Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection – a major presentation of photography in the entire museum. In 2023 she was in the curatorial team of the exhibition Søsterskap Contemporary Nordic Photography at Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. Among her most recent publications are contributions in A World History of Women Photographers (2022), Fotografihistorier. Fotografi och bildbruk i Sverige (2022) a new history of Swedish photography, and in the book Deborah Turbeville Photocollage, published by Thames & Hudson in 2023.

### Ástríður Magnúsdóttir
#### Independent Curator and Part-time Lecturer

Ástríður is an independent curator and lecturer at the School of Photography, Reykjavík School of Visual Arts and Continuing Education University of Iceland. In recent years she has been involved in exhibition projects, lecturing and committee work, along with MA studies in Art History from the University of Iceland and working on her own research in the field of visual arts and art history.

Among other projects she has researched performance art history of Icelandic women and their pioneering work in the field of visual arts. Her field of interest and research is feministic art history and theory of art, the history of photography and women‘s status in the art world in the past and now.  

Ástríður finished a BA in Art History and Art Theory in 2013 and a BA in Visual Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2008. 


### Guðbrandur Benediktsson
#### Director of the Reykjavík City Museum

Guðbrandur has an MA in history from the University of Iceland and an MA in museum studies from Gothenburg University. In his history studies he specialized in photographic history and photographs as sources for research and tools for communication.

Guðbrandur started working at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography in 1998 and then at Árbær Open Air Museum in 2005. Since 2014, he has been the director of the Reykjavík City Museum, since its foundation that year. He has worked as an adjunct and part-time teacher at the University of Iceland, i.a. program in Practical Cultural Exchange, in History and Tourism Studies. He has held various confidential positions in the field of professional social affairs, e.g. on the board of the Association of Icelandic Historians, in the Icelandic Museums Association (FÍSOS), Iceland Division of ICOM, in the The Museum Council of Iceland and the University Council. 


### Holly Roussell
#### Curator, Museologist and Art Historian, spezialising in Photography and Asian Contemporary Art, Switzerland/China

Holly Roussell is graduate of Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, with a MA in Museology. She also holds a BA in Art History. She previously served as coordinator of the worldwide travelling exhibitions program, as well as the photography prize, the Prix Elysée, for the Musée de l’Elysée from 2013-2017.  She is a curator with the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, China since 2021, and served as artistic advisor leading to the opening of Fotografiska Shanghai, from 2021- 2023. In 2022, she was invited guest curator for the Curiosa section for emerging artists at the leading international art fair for photography, Paris Photo. 

Roussell has organized more than 20 group and solo exhibitions around the world (Folkwang Museum; MUCEM; Les Rencontres d’Arles; Somerset House; NGV Melbourne; Lianzhou Photography Festival; OCT-Loft Shenzhen; Shanghai Centre of Photography; Auckland Art Gallery; Fotografiska; MMCA: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, among other institutions).

She is a regular expert to international portfolio reviews and has participated in juries such as the Aperture Photobook Award, Landskrona & Breadfield Dummy Book Award, PhMuseum Womens Photography Grant, Musée du Quai Branly Prix pour la photographie, Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award among others. Roussell regularly contributes as author to exhibition catalogues and magazines on photography, Chinese art, museology and curating. 
In 2024, she published the first monograph of Chinese experimental artist and photographer "Mo Yi: Selected Photographs 1988-2003" with Thames & Hudson, UK.



### Ingibjörg Jóhannsdóttir
#### Museum Director of the National Gallery of Iceland

Ingibjörg was appointed museum director of the National Gallery of Iceland in 2022. Previously, she had worked in educational institutions, focusing on art and creative learning; for 18 years as a teacher, head of department and principal of the Reykjavík School of Visual Arts and for nine years as principal of Landakotsskóli. 
Ingibjörg has also taught at the Iceland University of the Arts. She has curated exhibitions in Iceland, Sweden and the United States, mainly in the field of graphic art. She has also made and published graphic works in collaboration with visual artists and for years was the manager of the international photography course of the American photographer Mary Ellen Mark in Iceland. Ingibjörg completed a MA in Fine Art from Pratt Institute in 1994.

### João Linneu
#### Designer and Co-founder of Void – Independent Publishing House focused on Photography

João Linneu (born 1978) is a Brazilian-born designer based in Reykjavík. With over 25 years of experience in communication, he has held roles such as Art Director, Head of Art, and Creative Director in São Paulo and London. João has been honored with prestigious design awards including D&AD, Cannes Lions, One Show, and Clio. 

In 2016, he co-founded Void, an independent publishing house focused on photography, based in Athens. Linneu's portfolio encompasses over 200 publications, including titles for Void and other imprints, the latter crafted through his studio _Kakkalakki_, which he founded with his wife Fernanda Fajardo. 


### Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen
#### Managing Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival

Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen (born in DK and holds a MA from the University of Copenhagen), has been Managing Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival since 2016 with an increasing interest in experimental and outdoor exhibition concepts in her striving for a more accessible and sustainable festival format.
She has a strong focus on international and long-term collaborations across Europe and has worked with many art and photography institutions, festivals and photographers as a juror member, portfolio reviewer, curator and project manager. She has been in charge of numerous photography-based projects with partners across the culture field and has worked in the culture industry for the last 20 years.


### Pål Otnes
#### Editor of Fotografi and Communication Adviser at Preus Museum, Norway

Pål Otnes lives in Oslo, Norway and works at Preus museum, the national museum of Photography. He holds a bachelor i social science from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and later studied digital journalism at Volda University College. He was as an editor at Forlaget Fotografi for ten years, focusing on web and photobooks, and later the magazine Fotografi. He is now a communication adviser at Preus museum, mainly working as a picture editor for Fotografi magazine and as a program coordinator at the international photo festival Oslo Negativ. 


### Ragnhildur Ásvaldsdóttir
#### Director of Sláturhúsið Art Center

Ragnhildur has been the director of Sláturhúsið Art Center in Egilsstaðir since 2019. She has a BA in Documentary filmmaking from Columbia College, Chicago, MA in Practical Cultural Exchange from the University of Iceland. She also finished studies in  documentary photography from Högskolen i Volda, Norway. Before Ragnhildur started working at Sláturhúsið Art Center, she was a lecturer in documentary filmmaking and cultural exchange at the University of Tromsö as well as working in documentary filmmaking and exhibition curation. Ragnhildur also worked as a television programmer at RÚV – The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Among her exhibition curation projects are RASK- Agnieszka Sosnowska & Ingunn Snædal (2024),  LAND-photography group exhibition in Sláturhúsið Art  Center  (2020), HOME – Christopher Taylor (2023).
 

### Þröstur Helgason
#### Founder and owner of KIND Publishing

Þröstur Helgason is the founder and owner of KIND Publishing, which specializes in publishing books on visual arts, photography, and cultural history. Helgason holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Iceland. His latest book, Opna svæðið. Tímaritið Birtingur og íslenskur módernismi (2020), is on the Icelandic modernist magazine Birtingur and modernism in Iceland. Helgason has had a long career as a literary critic and cultural journalist and was for many years the editor of the cultural supplement of the daily newspaper Morgunblaðið and the head of Radio One at The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. He has been a lecturer at the University of Iceland and the Iceland University of the Arts and has contributed to journals and books on literature, cultural history, and visual arts, including a book about the artist Birgir Andrésson (Birgir Andrésson. In Icelandic Colors, 2010).


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