The Museum Council attended the annual meeting and conference of the International Blue Shield Association on September 9-12. The conference was held in Bucharest, Romania, in collaboration with the Romanian National Institute for Heritage, and its title was Shielding the Past: 70 years of the Hague Convention on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the 1954 UNESCO Hague Convention on the Protection of …
For the past seven years, the Museum Council's office has been located at Lækjargata 3 in Gimli, a listed building built in 1905. The Museum Council staff bid farewell to the small castle in Lækjargata and thank you for the good times over the past years. The Museum Council is now based at Austurstræti 5 on the fourth floor. The Museum Council's office will remain there for the foreseeable future.
Prevention and response plans for the protection of cultural heritage have been a focus of the Museum Council recently. As Iceland has now ratified the 1954 UNESCO Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, this includes a commitment that all recognized museums in Iceland work on prevention and develop response plans for various types of threats, including natural and …
The 2023 Annual Report of the Museum Council has been published on the Museum Council's website. The report can be found here.
Applications are open for the 2025 main allocation of the Museum Fund. The application deadline is 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, and applications can be made on the Museum Fund's application website. APPLICATION for a one-year grant from the 2025 main allocation of the Museum Fund. Recognized museums can apply for one-year grants, in addition to other museums, main collections, museum guides, centers and exhibitions can apply for …
Open for applications until September 30, 2024 The Museum Council would like to remind you that the last date for submitting applications for recognition according to the Museums Act No. 141/2011 in the year 2024 is September 30, 2024. All information about applications can be found here: https://safnarad.is/vidurkenning/umsokn-um-vidurkenningu/
According to the Museums Act, one of the roles of the Museums Council is to work on a Strategy for Museum Work, which was prepared in collaboration with the main museums and approved by the Minister in 2020. This was the first published strategy for museum work to be approved by the Minister and presented to the government, and is useful for defining projects and managing the responsibilities of museums, their owners …
The Museum Council office will be closed for summer vacation from Monday, July 8 to August 6. 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 …
On June 11-12, the Museum Council attended a conference in Stockholm entitled Cultural Heritage and Cultural Resilience – Nordic-Baltic Conference on Civil Preparedness. Here you can find a recording of the lectures and discussions from the first day. Prevention and response plans for the protection of cultural heritage have been in …
Reykjavík Art Museum received the 2024 Museum Award On International Museum Day on May 18, the Icelandic Museum Award was presented at a ceremony. The Icelandic Section of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Association of Icelandic Museums and Museum Professionals (FÍSOS) jointly organize the award, which is a recognition given every other year to an Icelandic museum for outstanding activities. This time, the award went to Reykjavík Art Museum for its progressive outreach work, while in …