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MUSEUM NIGHT | Embroidery bliss
Let’s stitch together a giant artwork on Museum Night inspired by Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir’s exhibition: Unspoken in Kjarvalsstaðir!
Museum Night: An evening with Iðunn kvæðamannafélag (Folk Poetry Society)
For centuries, Icelanders have spent their evenings in the "baðstofa” with various forms of entertainment and education. While household members sat on the beds working on crafts, one of them would recite poetry, tell a story or read aloud from old or new publications to entertain the others. Visitors of the National Museum are invited to step back in time to the 19th century, sit on a bench…
Family workshop
Decorate your own medieval initials!
Guided tours in English at The National Gallery of Iceland
𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝟱:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠 – 𝟳 𝗣𝗠 Pari Stave, Head Curator at the National Gallery of Iceland will lead a short tour on four exhibitions in the Gallery. The tours will be held in English. ▪️𝟱:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠 Innocent bodies – Agniezska Polska ▪️𝟲 𝗣𝗠 Seas‘ Blue Yonder – Bryndís Snæbjörnsd. & Mark Wilson ▪️𝟲:𝟯𝟬 𝗣𝗠 Affinities of form: Artistic Convergences in Iceland since 1970 ▪️𝟳 𝗣𝗠 Architecture of Place –…
Handicrafts in Good Company
A fun and welcoming handicraft group where participants knit, crochet, and work on various crafts in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Anna Jóhannesdóttir, a handicraft instructor, assists both beginners and more experienced participants. Everyone is welcome.
MUSEUM NIGHT | Artist Talk: Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir
Artist Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir gives an artist talk on her retrospective exhibition, Unspoken that opened at Kjarvalsstaðir in October 2025,
Synergy 2.0. - Light Trail
During the Winter Lights Festival, the art collective Mercury Maze Studio—comprised of Owen Hindley, Katerina Blahutova, and Þorsteinn Eyfjörð—welcomes visitors to a guided experience of their work Synergy 2.0. PLEASE NOTE: The artwork may affect people with epilepsy. The piece is an interactive video, light, and sound installation projected onto Hnitbjörg, the building that houses the Einar…
Costume swap
Welcome to the swap market at the Spöngin City Library! Here you can exchange costumes for Ash Wednesday in all shapes and sizes! Everyone is invited to bring their own costumes to the market and then take those costumes they like in return. What one no longer has a use for can be a real fortune for another. Now is the perfect opportunity to go through closets and drawers because here you can…
Bring me Colours
The exhibition “Bring Me Colours” is specially created for the Sculpture Garden and is a colorful encounter with grayness and colorlessness. The work is an installation where the sculptural qualities of painting are explored and its scale is exaggerated. The works create a single whole and the script for the exhibition was originally developed as a small-scale installation inside a model of the…
Bun, bun, bun!
Making colorful wands out of paper and a stick is a fun Icelandic tradition. We want to make the wands more environmentally friendly by using tree branches and all kinds of discarded paper. Newspapers, magazines, brochures and old books are the perfect materials. Anyone can make a Bun Wand, but the very young might need some assistance from a grown-up. Let's get together to keep this old…