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Museums & Art Galleries in Iceland

List of museums, art galleries and cultural co-operation in Iceland. If you want to look at or buy Icelandic Art this is your place to start. Among museums you can find the National Museum of Iceland, The Salt fish Saga Museum in Grindavik, the Saga Museum in Perlan Reykjavik, Primrun the Viking Art Centre and many more.

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• Antique maps of Iceland (on-line shopping)
  Do you collect antique maps? Here you find old Icelandic maps that are uniqe. Add these Icelandic maps to your collection and buy antique maps of Iceland on-line.
• Archeological jewlery (on-line shopping)
  There were many highly talented gold and silver smiths among the Nordic settlers who came to Iceland some 1100 years ago. On-line store with jewlery from the Viking age.
• Arnesinga Folk Museum (Click here for Icelandic version)- (South Iceland)
  The Árnesinga Folk Museum is located at "The House", built in 1765 and one of the oldest surviving buildings in Iceland. Exhibits show local history and trace the different roles that The House has played during its long life
• Arni Magnusson Institute (Museum in Reykjavik)
  The Institute contains the Icelandic manuscripts that were returned to the people of Iceland between 1971-1997, after being kept for centuries in Denmark. Among the most valuable items were the oldest extant manuscript of the Poetic Edda, the Codex Regius and the Flateyjarbók (The Book of Flatey).
• Aquarium and Museum of Natural History (Museum in Vestmannaeyjar)
  Museum is divided into three areas, the mounted birds and fish, the aquarium and the rock and mineral display. Unusual colored Guillemont, which is the only known one in existence.
• Árbæjarsafn-Reykjavík Museum (Museum in Reykjavik)
  Everyone should be able to find interesting exhibitions and exhibits at Árbæjarsafn, showing the life and work of past generations.

• Bustarfell Folk Museum (museum in Vopnafjordur - east Iceland)
  The Bustarfell’s museum house preserves much history about Iceland and its people. A visit to the Museum at Bustarfell is a journey through the history of farming and changes in lifestyle from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid-20th century.

• East-Iceland Heritage Museum (Museum in Egilsstadir - east Iceland)
  On display are artifacts, pictures and restorations conveying life, culture and work in the region from settlement in the early middle ages to the present. Specially noteworthy are the contents of a pagan grave and a restoration of a living room/bedroom of a traditional

• Ghost museum - Stokkseyri
  The Ghost Centre in Stokkseyri is a Ghost Museum with all of the most famous ghosts in Iceland, on the third floor in a 1000 sqmtr. building.

• Icelandic Emigration Centre
  The Icelandic Emigration Centre at Hofsos opened in 1996 and the scale of its operations has expanded every year since. All sorts of services are offered on site, including a conference room, library and shop. The souvenir shop is situated in the same place as the old co-operative used to be – a fitting continuation of the building’s trading tradition.

• Iceland Settlement Centre
  Over a thousand years ago, Viking adventurers discovered a large untouched island in the north Atlantic and claimed the land for their own. A rapid period of settlement ensued and thus the Icelandic nation was born.

• Laxness Museum
  Gljufrasteinn was the home and workplace of Halldor Laxness (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955) and his family for more than half a century. It has now been opened to the public as a museum, unchanged from when Laxness lived there.

• National Museum of Iceland
  The National Museum of  Iceland is dedicated to  communicating knowledge of Iceland’s cultural heritage from the time of its pioneering settlement in 874 to the present day. The museum reopened with renewed purpose as the national center for conservation, research, and illumination of Iceland’s extraordinary history.

• Primun, the art of the Vikings (Art galllery in Reykjavik)
  Art gallery specializing in Viking Art. What does your birthday rune look like or what does it mean? What do the runes say about your birthday or your kinsmen, friends, colleges or business?
• Reykjavik. Tourist Information Center (Reykjavik)
  The capital of Iceland has the focus of business, transport, trade and communication as well as being Iceland's cultural and educational centre. With its theatres, concerts, art galleries coffee houses, restaurants and shopping centers, the city has something to delight every visitor.
• Saga Museum (Reykjavik)
  The Saga Museum intimately recreates key moments in Icelandic history, moments that determined the fate of our people and which give a compelling view into how Icelanders have lived and thought for more than a millennium.
• Iceland salt fish museum (Grindavík - Reykjanes, south Iceland)
  In the late 19th century salted fish was to Iceland what oil is to Saudi Arabia. Every summer people would flock to small villages scattered by the coastline to work in the processing of salted fish for export.
• Sjøfn Har. Art Gallery (Art gallery in Reykjavik)
  Sjøfn Har. An Icelandic artist. Oil paintings and color calk/proof ink drawings of her captures the essence of the powerful Icelandic landscape. Rich and sweeping contrasting colors, subtle contours and shadows and sweeping panoramas.

• West Nordic Culture House (Museum in hafnafjordur)
  A museum that involves cultural co-operation between the West Nordic countries, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland. It displays and showcases collections of Viking and Inuit art, paintings, drawings, carvings and crafts made today in the traditions of the Viking Age.

• Whale Museum in Husavik, Iceland
  The Whale Museum, an educational facility on whales and the marine environment in the North Atlantic.