At the 178th Museum Council meeting, a new version of the utilization reports for project grants was approved, which will take effect starting with the 2018 grant year. Starting with the 2018 grant year, project grant recipients will submit a progress report to the Museum Council for grants exceeding ISK 1,500,000. This report must be submitted at the beginning of the year following the grant year. All grant recipients are to submit …

A working group under the auspices of the National Gallery of Iceland has, together with Myndstefi, the copyright association of visual artists, worked on an agreement on the publication of copyrighted works from the collections of recognized museums and state museums. Upon signing it, museums will be granted permission to publish photographs on an online catalogue of copyrighted works. This will greatly increase the public and schools' access to information from catalogues. On Thursday 20. …