{"id":5058,"date":"2025-09-23T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:55:43","slug":"safnarad-heimsaekir-sofn-a-hofudborgarsvaedinu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/frettir\/2025\/09\/safnarad-heimsaekir-sofn-a-hofudborgarsvaedinu\/","title":{"rendered":"Council of Museums visits museums in the capital region"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the annual museum visit by the council, several museums in the capital region were visited. They were Icelandic Film Museum<\/a>, Hafnarborg, Cultural and Arts Center of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/a>, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Regional Museum<\/a> and Icelandic Museum of Natural History<\/a>. The Council for the Arts, along with the directors of the three main museums and staff from the Council's office, spent a day visiting the museums last September.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the cold storage facilities of the Film Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Film Archive of Iceland<\/h4>\n

In Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Th\u00f3ra Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, director of the National Film Archive of Iceland, welcomed the group and led them into each preservation room one after another. Icelandic Film Museum<\/strong> is a highly specialized archive where films require very specific storage conditions; they are more like freezers, as films are best stored at a low temperature. The collection is housed at 13 Hvaleyrarvegur in a building originally constructed as a fish processing school and which housed a salting and freezing plant, but now serves well for film preservation and the museum's operations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Museum director Th\u00f3ra leads a group through the museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Preserving films is a major undertaking, as they are fragile and of various types, which requires significant expertise to work with. It was remarkable to get a look inside the preservation spaces and an insight into the projects of the museum's staff, including washing, scanning, and transferring films to a digital format, cataloging, research, and much more. The National Film Archive of Iceland has, in recent years, been working on incredibly interesting research<\/a> on the film heritage and shared them, among other places, on the homepage, but also in collaboration with R\u00edkissj\u00f3nvarpi\u00f0 in Iceland.The Pearl series<\/a> which has enjoyed popularity. The National Film Archive of Iceland has received grants from the museum fund that have been well-utilized for various projects in recent years, and received a 2024 \u00d6ndvegi grant and is now working on a film study about Loft Gu\u00f0mundsson, a pioneer in filmmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Sverris Hall at Hafnarborg <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Fall Show and the Diverse Activities of Hafnarborg<\/h4>\n

The Collection Council next visited Hafnarborg <\/strong>where curator Ald\u00eds Arnad\u00f3ttir and the staff welcomed us and told us about the museum's activities. Hafnarborg is engaged in an ambitious cultural program, presenting a diverse range of exhibitions in both of the building's galleries. In addition, it hosts a variety of events, including those related to the current exhibitions, as well as concerts, meetings, lectures, and more. The museum board viewed the ongoing exhibitions, You are here: From Uppsala to Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and from Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to Uppsala <\/a>where the relationship with one of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's 10 sister cities is detailed. The exhibition Total sluts<\/a> is in the larger hall of Hafnarborg, the exhibition, which is also the fifteenth exhibition in Hafnarborg's fall exhibition series, where there <\/em>Curators are invited to submit a proposal for an exhibition at the museum and make their voices heard through an open application process each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cold Lights, the newest addition to the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Museum of Municipal History\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Museum of Municipal History<\/strong>There are numerous exhibitions and quite a few exhibition venues throughout Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The museum board visited the Pakkh\u00fasi\u00f0 and was given a tour of the exhibitions; one was about the history of scouting in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur., Always Ready, Scouting for 100 Years<\/a> which received support from the collection fund and so Permanent exhibition<\/a> About the history of the town and a toy exhibition on the upper floor of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo from the website of the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum, from the exhibition \"K\u00f6ldu lj\u00f3sum\".<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Bj\u00f6rn P\u00e9tursson, the Curator of Local Monuments at the Folk Museum, showed us signs that are all over Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur on behalf of the museum, featuring pictures and codes. But this way, you can read about the town's historical and heritage sites, and the signs together form a complete picture of the town's history and culture. The museum's newest addition is the exhibition\u00a0Cold Lights<\/a>\u00a0which was set up to mark the 120th anniversary of the first public electricity supply in Iceland. The exhibition, which opened a year ago, is in the underpasses under L\u00e6kjargata by Hamarskotsl\u00e6k and is exceptionally well-successful and unexpected. The exhibition is open to everyone 24\/7.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tour of the Nature House in Nes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Nature House in Nes<\/h4>\n

The Board of Trustees visited the new future headquarters National Museum of Natural History of Iceland<\/strong>, the Nature House in Nes, where there was a lot going on and construction was in full swing, but the facility is scheduled to be ready at the beginning of next year. The group was given a tour of the building by Ragnhildur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, the director, who spoke about an exciting permanent exhibition that will cover the ocean in all its glory, with a special focus on the North Atlantic, the ocean's ecosystems, and its biodiversity. Finally, we got to see the preservation space of the National Museum of Natural History, which is not a less exciting place for museum people to visit, with many interesting things to see. The Museum Council is very grateful for the wonderful museum visits, the warm receptions, and the interesting conversations with museum staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visit to Hafnarborg. From right: Ald\u00eds Arnarsd\u00f3ttir, Vilhj\u00e1lmur Bjarnason, Gunnhildur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, Ragnhildur Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Dr\u00f6fn Whitehead, \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Harpa \u00de\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, H\u00f3lmar H\u00f3lm, Ingibj\u00f6rg J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir and Hlynur Hallsson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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During the Museum Council's annual museum visit, several museums in the capital region were visited. They were the Icelandic Film Archive, Hafnarborg, the Cultural and Arts Center of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum, and the National Museum of Natural History of Iceland. The Museum Council, along with the directors of the three national museums and staff from the council's office, spent a day visiting the museums last September. The Film Archive of Iceland In Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Th\u00f3ra Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, director of the Film Archive of Iceland, welcomed the group and \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5072,"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-5058","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\/5058","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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}