{"id":5030,"date":"2025-10-21T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:43:00","slug":"farskoli-fisos-2025-a-selfossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/frettir\/2025\/10\/farskoli-fisos-2025-a-selfossi\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00cdSOS School 2025 in Selfoss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reliability, credibility, and truth in the Icelandic museum world!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The annual professional conference for museum staff The School Bus<\/em> was held for the 37th time at Hotel Selfoss from October 1-3, 2025. The Association of Icelandic Museums and Museum Professionals (F\u00cdSOS) organizes the conference, and the Farsk\u00f3li directors deserve our best thanks for an informative and fun Farsk\u00f3li. The conference is an important platform for professional development, education, and networking for museum professionals from all over the country, and attendance was good this year, with 160 people attending. The theme of this year's Farsk\u00f3li was \u201eReliability, credibility, and truth in collections<\/strong>\u201cand the program was packed and diverse, consisting of, among other things, lectures, seminars, a scavenger hunt, and a field trip around the Southern Region.<\/p>\n

The school session was convened early on Wednesday and began with the address \u2018Can practicing art heal societal disorders by reconnecting our minds with our bodies?<\/em>\u2018<\/strong> which was delivered by Thomasine Giesecke, an artist and education curator at the Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay and the Louvre museums in Paris. She discussed the success and importance of art therapy, which can have a healing effect on various groups in society. There were also presentations from the head of Sarps, who held the title of New Sarpur: The Current Situation<\/em><\/strong>, where Vala Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir reviewed the status of the new Sarpur. But now the end of that work is in sight, and a new Sarpur will hopefully see the light of day in the coming months, and will undoubtedly greatly improve the registration of museum objects. The Sarpur operating company has been in development cooperation with the software company Zetcom<\/strong> Marcell Zemp, founder and CEO of Zetcom, spoke about the new Sarp and the company, which specializes in developing software solutions and services for the collections, assets, and archives of companies and institutions.<\/p>\n

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Photos by H\u00f6r\u00f0ur Geirsson, photographer and curator of the photography department at the Museum of Akureyri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The F\u00cdSOS annual general meeting was held over a light lunch, and at the end of the meeting, it was a pleasure to applaud the new Honorary members of F\u00cdSOS<\/strong> to El\u00edn S. Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, Frost F. J\u00f3hannesson, Gu\u00f0mundur \u00d3lafsson, and Inga J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir. More about that here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Executive Director of the Museum Council, gave the talk: Where does your collection stand? Figures from the collection work 2016-2023<\/strong>. There, Th\u00f3ra discussed, among other things, the information that the Museum Council collects about museum work, what is good to keep in mind when analyzing statistics, and what to avoid. For example, statistics can be misleading if they lack context, if biased samples appear, and more interesting points.
After the presentations, the distance learning students went on a field trip led by Hannes Stef\u00e1nsson, where they visited \u00c1rnesingar Art Museum<\/a>, \u00c1rnesingar Regional Museum<\/a> and finally the Military Museum at Selfoss Airport on this excellent tour of the South Coast. The day ended with a regular pub quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bergur Ebbi opened the day for us on Thursday with a talk about museums, identity, and conscience, before a variety of seminars organized by museum professionals began. Fifteen seminars were held, which covered topics such as preservation, exhibitions, the future of turf houses, tourism, museum education, art therapy, audio description for the blind and visually impaired, and nature. You can read more about the seminars. here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Council of Museums, in collaboration with the Program in Museum Studies and F\u00cdSOS, hosted a seminar on\u00a0Museum Work in Tourism \u2013 How can the position of museums in tourism be strengthened?<\/strong> The seminar had great attendance, and it was clear that museum professionals are passionate about the topic. The seminar was set up as a kind of brainstorming session where the organizers facilitated the discussion with group work in the form of speed dating and then more in-depth discussions on how museums can enter the tourism industry more safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The day was then broken up with a scavenger hunt around Selfoss, and the society's very fun annual party was held at Hotel Selfoss, where guests had a great time.<\/p>\n

On the last day, there was a discussion about the new Selfoss downtown, which was a reference to the Farsk\u00f3lans theme. There, architect Sigur\u00f0ur Einarsson of the new downtown gave a presentation about it, and following that, Vilhelm\u00edna J\u00f3nad\u00f3ttir, an ethnologist and specialist at the Ministry of Culture, gave a presentation; On the appeal and historicism in the new Selfoss town center, and finally, they took questions from the Farsk\u00f3li guests.<\/p>\n

The workshop is held by the Association of Icelandic Museums and Museum Professionals with support from the Museum Council and participation fees. The mobile school was run by a steering committee that included L\u00fd\u00f0ur P\u00e1lsson, director of the \u00c1rnessingur Museum, who served as the course director; Sigurlaugur Ing\u00f3lfsson of the City History Museum; Helga Arad\u00f3ttir of the National Museum of Natural History; and Krist\u00edn Scheving of the \u00c1rnessingur Art Museum. Also working with the mobile school board was Dagr\u00fan \u00d3sk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, a staff member of F\u00cdSOS.<\/p>\n

The school year at Tryggvask\u00f3li was concluded by a graduate of Selfoss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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