Safnaráð auglýsir eftir umsóknum í aðalúthlutun safnasjóðs 2026

Opið er fyrir umsóknir til kl. 16.00, fimmtudaginn 20. nóvember 2025 UMSÓKN um styrk til eins árs úr aðalúthlutun safnasjóðs 2026 Viðurkennd söfn geta sótt um styrki til eins árs auk þess sem önnur söfn, höfuðsöfn, safnvísar, setur og sýningar geta sótt um úthlutun úr safnasjóði í samstarfi við viðurkennd söfn, þar sem viðurkennda safnið er ábyrgðaraðili. …

Opið fyrir umsóknir í aukaúthlutun 2025

Umsóknarfrestur er til kl. 16.00, fimmtudaginn 13. nóvember 2025 Safnaráð minnir á, að opið er fyrir umsóknir í aukaúthlutun safnasjóðs 2025. Umsóknarfrestur er til kl. 16.00, fimmtudaginn 13. nóvember 2025. Í aukaúthlutun safnasjóðs árið 2025 geta viðurkennd söfn sótt um styrki til símenntunar eða til stafrænna kynningarmála. Umsóknir sem berast eftir að umsóknarfresti lýkur verða …

Fjórir nýir heiðursfélagar FÍSOS

Félag íslenskra safna og safnafólks (FÍSOS) hefur útnefnt fjóra einstaklinga nafnbótinni heiðursfélagi FÍSOS. Þau eiga öll það sameiginlegt að hafa sinnt safnamálum af miklum metnaði í gegnum tíðina og tekið virkan þátt í samfélagi safnafólks. Þetta eru þau: Elín S. Sigurðardóttir, Frosti F. Jóhannesson, Guðmundur Ólafsson og Inga Jónsdóttir Texti fenginn af vef FÍSOS Elín S. …

Museum Council Annual Report 2024

The Museum Council's 2024 Annual Report has been published on the Museum Council's website. The report can be found here. 

Annual Report of Accredited Museums 2025

The submission of the Annual Report of Accredited Museums 2025 has been opened and the deadline is October 15th. The annual report of accredited museums to the Museum Council is part of the Museum Council's supervision of the operation of a museum. Information from these reports is published, among other things, in the Museum Council's Annual Reports, in addition to collecting information for Statistics Iceland, which they publish on their website. Contingency plans …

Annual consultation meeting between ministers and professional associations in museum work

At the beginning of the summer, on June 25, the annual consultation meeting of the Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education and professional associations of museum work took place in the premises of the Museum Council at Austurstræti 5. A consultation meeting is a one to two-hour local meeting that is usually called once a year and is intended to have a conversation about museum work issues. The meeting is held in accordance with Article 7 of the Museums Act …

Application for recognition of a museum according to the Museums Act

Open for applications until September 30, 2025 The Museum Council would like to remind you that the deadline for submitting applications for recognition according to the Museums Act No. 141/2011 is September 30, 2025. All information about applications can be found here: https://safnarad.is/vidurkennd-sofn/umsokn-um-vidurkenningu/ 

Museum Council summer closure from July 7th – August 5th

The Museum Council office will be closed for summer vacation from Monday, July 7th to August 5th. If the matter is urgent, you can reach Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir, the Director of the Museum Council, at 820-5450. We remind travelers that you can visit museums anywhere in the country and on our website you can find a map showing the location …

Symposium: The Future of Museums in Ever-Changing Societies

International Museum Day is celebrated on May 18th every year, and ICOM, the International Council of Museums, has been organizing the day since 1977. To mark the day, the Museum Council, the Icelandic Section of ICOM and FÍSOS hold an annual symposium related to the title of the day. The Icelandic Section of ICOM, FÍSOS and the Museum Council hosted the symposium on May 21st at the National Museum, which discussed, among other things, museums …

International Museum Day 2025

On the occasion of International Museum Day 2025, a symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 21st in the lecture hall of the National Museum of Iceland. In a world that is constantly changing and conflicts are becoming increasingly prominent, the theme of this year's Museum Day, The Future of Museums in Changing Societies, invites us to consider the role and environment of museums in this regard. The Icelandic Section of ICOM, FÍSOS and the Museum Council invite …