The National Museum of Iceland, the Art Museum of Iceland and the Natural History Museum of Iceland, together with the Museum Council, are inviting you to an annual meeting for recognized museums. The meeting will take place in the lecture hall of the Museum House on Hverfisgata. A recording of the meeting can be viewed here. Agenda for the Annual Meeting of the Main Museums and Museum Council 14:00 – Welcome – coffee will be served to guests 14:15 – 14:45 – Action Plan for the Strategy for Museum Work …

The Museum Council is launching a mailing list and is inviting museum professionals to sign up. The aim of the Museum Council's mailing list is to send museum professionals useful information from museum work and is primarily intended for people who work in recognized museums. If you are interested in receiving information about, for example, application deadlines or museum fund reporting or other useful …

In September, the museum board went on its annual autumn trip and visited the Folk Museum in Skógar and Sagnheima, the Nature and Folk Museum of the Vestmannaeyjar Islands, as well as other museums and exhibitions. The group consisted of the museum board itself, the directors of the main museums, as well as museum board staff. At the Folk Museum in Skógar, the museum's director, Andri Guðmundsson, welcomed the museum board and led them through the history and exhibitions of the museum. The Folk Museum …

The deadline for submitting an application for museum recognition is this time until September 15, 2023. Applications should be submitted to the email address safnarad@safnarad.is Information on what constitutes a recognized museum can be found here Information on the conditions for recognition can be found here Information on the charters/statutes of recognized museums can be found here Application for recognition can be found here Further information is available at the office of …

The Museum Council office will be closed for summer vacation from Monday, July 17th to August 7th. If the matter is urgent, you can reach Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir, the Museum Council's executive director, at 820-5450.