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National Museum of Iceland - Museum - The Greater Reykjavik Area Iceland

Suðurgata 41, 101 Reykjavík
Phone: +354-530-2200
Fax: +354-530-2201
Email: [email protected]
WebSite: The Museums Local Web Page

Region: The Greater Reykjavik Area

Opening Hours:
1. May - 15. Sept
Every day from 10-17
16. Sept - 30. April
Every day except mondays 11-17

About: (Description)
The National Museum was established on 24 February 1863. Icelandic museum pieces up until that time had been kept in Danish collections. Jón Árnason librarian was made curator of the Icelandic collection. During the first decades it was housed in several attics in Reykjavík making it an incomplete and inaccesible one. When the Republic was formed in 1944, Parliament decided to give the nation a museum at Suðurgata, into which the collections were moved in 1950. Six decades later it has been entirely refurbished to meet present standards and requirements.
The role of the National Museum is varied, reflecting its legal obligation as national centre for the preservation and management of cultural heritage, cultural reaearch programmes and promulgation of knowledge and information which relates to the cultural heritage of the nation.

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