{"id":3472,"date":"2020-05-18T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2023-04-19T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:55:00","slug":"islensku-safnaverdlaunin-afhent-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/frettir\/2020\/05\/islensku-safnaverdlaunin-afhent-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Museum Awards presented in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Iceland, Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson, presented to the National Museum of Iceland <a href=\"https:\/\/safnmenn.is\/safnadagurinn\/safnaverdlaun\/\">The Icelandic Museum Awards<\/a> 2020 at a ceremony at the National Museum on Hverfisgata on Monday, May 18 at 4:00 PM. The Icelandic Museum Award is a biennial award presented to an Icelandic museum for outstanding work.<\/p>\n<p>Five projects were also nominated: the Reykjav\u00edk City History Museum, the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, the National Museum of Natural History of Iceland and, jointly, the Eastland Museum, the Eastland Museum of Technology, the Eastland Maritime Museum, and the Gunnar Museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thjodminjasafn.is\/stofnunin\/um-safnid\/frettir\/thjodminjasafn-islands-hlytur-islensku-safnaverdlaunin-arid-2020\">National Museum of Iceland<\/a> won the award for\u00a0<strong>Conservation and research center\u00a0<\/strong>in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and K\u00f3pavogur, along with\u00a0<strong>Handbook on the preservation of museum collections.<\/strong>\u00a0It was the assessment of the selection committee that these projects<em>\u00a0<\/em>are an important contribution to preservation nationwide. Collaboration and the sharing of knowledge are significant, and the specialized facilities created for the preservation of priceless heritage serve as a model and are a credit to the Icelandic museum community.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, the National Conservator, accepted the award on behalf of the National Museum of Iceland. The award is presented every other year for outstanding work in the field of museums. The award is presented by the Icelandic National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and<a href=\"https:\/\/safnmenn.is\/2020\/05\/24\/thjodminjasafn-islands-hlytur-islensku-safnaverdlaunin-2020\/\"> Association of Icelandic Museums and Museum Professionals (F\u00cdSOS)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Iceland, Gu\u00f0ni Th. J\u00f3hannesson, presented the National Museum of Iceland with the 2020 Icelandic Museum Award at a ceremonial event at Safnah\u00fasi\u00f0 on Hverfisgata on Monday, May 18, at 4:00 PM. The Icelandic Museum Award is a biennial award presented to an Icelandic museum for outstanding work. Five projects were also nominated: the Reykjav\u00edk City History Museum, the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, the National Museum of Natural History of Iceland, and jointly the Eastland Museum, the Museum of Technology \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}