New regulations on quarantine measures will come into effect on January 13. The changes from previous measures that apply to museums are that general crowd restrictions will be based on 20 people, with children born in 2005 and later exempted from that number. This is being applied to each quarantine space. Gathering restrictions valid from January 13 to February 17, 2021 Maximum number …

At the end of December 2020, the Minister of Education and Culture, after receiving the opinion of the Museum Council, allocated ISK 17,466,950 from the second additional allocation of the Museum Fund 2020. In 2020, there were two additional allocations from the fund, the first was last July and was intended as a counterbalance to the consequences that COVID-19 has had on the operation of museums. Now from the second additional allocation, 58 grants were allocated to …