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National Museum of Iceland

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National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
National Museum of Iceland
Phone:
+354 530 2200

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The National Museum of Iceland was established on 24 February 1863, with Jón Árnason the first curator of the Icelandic collection, previously kept in Danish museums. The second curator, Sigurður Guðmundsson, advocated the creation of an antiquarian collection, and the museum was called the Antiquarian Collection until 1911. Before settling at its present location, at Suðurgata 41, 101 Reykjavík, in 1950, it was housed in various Reykjavík attics, finally for forty years in the attic of the National Library building on Hverfisgata . A key object in the permanent exhibition is the Valþjófsstaður door, a celebrated carving depicting a version of the Lion-Knight legend where a knight slays a dragon, thus freeing a lion that becomes his companion.
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