(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.
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 Reykjavik)
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.
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
Icelandic farm.
Geysircenter Multimedia
museum, South-Iceland
At Hotel Geysir you will find a unique multimedia museum where you can
experience the forces of Icelandic nature. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes
and history, all in one place.
Husid, Folk
museum Eyrabakka (English
version)
(South Iceland)
Húsið á Eyrarbakka - eitt elsta og merkasta hús landsins, byggt
1765. Munir sem tengjast sögu héraðsins og sögu Hússins á
Eyrarbakka.
Iceland saltfish
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.
Primun
(Art galllery in Reykjavik)
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 centres, the city has something to delight every visitor.
Saga Museum
(Reykjavik)
The Saga Museum intimatly 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 millenium.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.
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