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Iceland's museums are small and full of stories – sagas, settlers, volcanoes and Viking-age farms on an island of fire and ice.
In Reykjavík the National Museum of Iceland tells 1,200 years of history in one walk, and the Settlement Exhibition shows the ruins of a Viking-age hall found under a city street. The Reykjavík Art Museum has three houses – for Kjarval's landscapes, Ásmundur Sveinsson's sculptures and Erró's pop art – and Perlan, on its hill, takes you inside a man-made ice cave. Outside the city, Þingvellir is where the first parliament met in 930; Skógar keeps turf-roofed farmhouses; Akureyri, Húsavík and the Westfjords have museums about fishing, whales and sea monsters. Weather decides your day here, so a museum is never a bad plan. This museumtickets.com guide follows Iceland from the settlers to the book lovers of today, region by region.
From the first settlers to a modern island nation.
Norwegian farmers and their Irish and Scottish servants sail to an empty island. A layer of volcanic ash from 871 helps date the first houses.
Te zien in: The Settlement ExhibitionChiefs from all over Iceland meet at Þingvellir every summer to make laws and settle disputes – the Althing.
Te zien in: National Museum of IcelandIcelanders write down the sagas: family feuds, voyages to Greenland and Vinland, love and revenge. The old vellum books are national treasures.
Te zien in: Saga Museum →Under Danish rule, trade is controlled, and in 1783 the Laki eruption kills much of the livestock and brings famine. People live in turf houses heated by peat.
Te zien in: Skógar MuseumMotor boats and trawlers make fishing a business, and Reykjavík grows from a village into a capital.
Te zien in: Reykjavík Maritime MuseumOn a rainy day at Þingvellir, Iceland declares itself a republic, independent of Denmark.
Te zien in: National Museum of IcelandA saga traveller, a fighter for the vote, a painter and the first elected woman president in the world.
In the sagas she sails to Vinland in North America, has a child there, and later walks to Rome as a pilgrim – one of the most travelled women of the Viking age.
Te zien in: National Museum of IcelandJournalist and campaigner who won Icelandic women the vote and was among the first women elected to Reykjavík's council.
Painter and weaver of Iceland's colours: grey-blue seas, black sand and green hills.
Te zien in: National Gallery of IcelandIn 1980 she became the first woman in the world to be elected president by a national vote, a few years after Icelandic women went on strike for a day.
Names that come back in Icelandic museums.
Lava, moss and faces hidden in the landscape; a museum in Reykjavík carries his name.
Te zien in: Kjarvalsstaðir →Sculptures of saga heroes, washerwomen and sea monsters in and around his white domed house.
Te zien in: Ásmundarsafn →Iceland's first sculptor, whose museum and garden overlook Hallgrímskirkja.
Te zien in: Einar Jónsson MuseumBusy, colourful pop art collages; he gave thousands of works to Reykjavík.
Te zien in: Hafnarhús →Bright, simple Icelandic horses, sheep and Reykjavík houses, painted from New York.
Lamb, fish, skyr – and a few brave dishes.
Thick, mild cultured dairy eaten for a thousand years, now with berries for breakfast.
Lamb soup with root vegetables, the warm answer to wind and rain.
Fish and potatoes mashed together with onion and white sauce, served with dark rye bread.
Sweet rye bread baked for a day in hot ground near a geothermal spring.
Icelandic hot dogs with raw and crispy onion, ketchup, mustard and remoulade – a Reykjavík institution.
Midwinter feast food: fermented shark, sour ram's testicles, sheep's head – with brennivín to help.
Light festivals in the dark and midnight sun in summer.
Old-style feasts with traditional food, songs and stories.
Cream buns on Monday, salted lamb and pea soup on Tuesday, children in costumes singing for sweets on Wednesday.
A public holiday to welcome summer, even if it still snows.
Hikes, swims and concerts in the light that never ends.
Museums, galleries and homes open their doors, ending with fireworks over the harbour.
Thirteen Yule Lads visit one by one, the Christmas Cat lurks for those without new clothes, and New Year's Eve brings bonfires and fireworks everywhere.
The weather changes the plan: keep a museum or two for the rainy or stormy hours.
The Reykjavík City Card covers many museums, pools and the city buses.
Long light in summer, short days in winter – check daylight for outdoor museums like Skógar and Þingvellir.
Cards work almost everywhere, even in small country museums.
Op museumtickets.com: 47 musea met foto’s, de route en de musea in de buurt. Bewaar je favorieten in het gratis Cultuurpaspoort en betaal, waar het museum dat aanbiedt, je entree vooraf.
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