{"id":4523,"date":"2025-04-07T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:33:46","slug":"nytt-safnarad-skipad-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/frettir\/2025\/04\/nytt-safnarad-skipad-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New museum board appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Culture, Innovation, and Higher Education has appointed a new museum board, whose term of office is from February 1, 2025, to January 31, 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The council consists of:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">General representatives<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s1\">Vilhj\u00e1lmur Bjarnason, chairman, appointed without nomination<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s1\">Gunnhildur \u00c1sta Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir Vice Chair, appointed without nomination<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s6\">Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Dr\u00f6fn Whitehead, nominated by <a href=\"http:\/\/icom.is\/\">Icelandic Section of ICOM, International Council of Museums<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s6\">Hlynur Hallsson, nominated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.safnmenn.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s7\">Association of Icelandic Museums and Collectors\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s5\">J\u00f3hanna Erla P\u00e1lmad\u00f3ttir, <\/span><span class=\"s6\">nominated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samband.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s7\">Association of Icelandic Local Authorities<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Deputy representatives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li3\">Valborg Sn\u00e6varr, appointed without nomination<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Svanhv\u00edt Fri\u00f0riksd\u00f3ttir, appointed without nomination<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">H\u00f3lmar H\u00f3lm, nominated by the Icelandic chapter of ICOM, the International Council of Museums<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Th\u00f3ra Sigurbj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir, nominated by the Association of Icelandic Museums and Museum Professionals<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">The appointment of a substitute for the Association of Icelandic Municipalities will be announced later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The directors of the main museums also attend meetings of the museum council in their position due to<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Ingibj\u00f6rg J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.listasafn.is\/\">National Gallery of Iceland<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Hilmar Malmquist,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nmsi.is\/\">Icelandic Museum of Natural History<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Harpa Thorsdottir,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thjodminjasafn.is\/\">National Museum of Iceland<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education has appointed a new Museum Council, whose term of office is 1 February 2025 \u2013 31 January 2029. The Council consists of: General representatives Vilhj\u00e1lmur Bjarnason, chairman, appointed without nomination Gunnhildur \u00c1sta Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir vice chairman, appointed without nomination Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Dr\u00f6fn Whitehead, nominated by the Icelandic Section of ICOM, the International Council of Museums Hlynur Hallsson, nominated by the Association of Icelandic Museums and Collectors J\u00f3hanna Erli \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":357,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oflokkad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}