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Children of the Eye at Asmundarsafn and More is Beautiful and Panik at Hafnarhús.

The last day of the exhibitions Children of the Eye at Asmundarsafn, and More is Beautiful and Panik at Hafnarhús is Monday, 1 May.

Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Þingvallavatn, 1989, oil on canvas, 67x90 cm.

A retrospective of the works of Louisa Matthíasdóttir – Calm – opens at Reykjavík Art Museum – Kjarvalsstaðir, Sunday, 30 April at 16h00. The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, will open the exhibition.

Flóttamaðkarnir at Kjarvalsstaðir.

Program, 25-30 April
Free entry for adults accompanied by children

25-30 April
Ásmundarsafn

Icelandic folktales in pictures – exhibition by children from three elementary schools.

The joint project The search for Icelandic Porcelain.

The last day of the exhibition Case Studies – Product Design into the 21st Century at Kjarvalsstaðir is Sunday, 23 April.

Reykjavík Art Museum - Hafnarhús, Kjarvalsstaðir and Ásmundarsafn, will be open on First Day of Summer, Thursday, 20 April.  

Opening Hours: 
Hafnarhús 10-22
Kjarvalsstaðir 10-17
Ásmundarsafn 13-17

We look forward to see you - have a wonderful summer! 

Fjallamjólk eftir Jóhannes S. Kjarval, 1941.

Mountain Milk is one of Kjarval’s best known works and it depicts the landscape at Þingvellir where the painter often sought his inspiration. The work shows Flosagjá chasm with Mt. Ármannsfell in the background.

Ragnar Kjartansson, To Music / Til tónlistarinnar.

The exhibition God, I Feel So Bad will be held from 3 June–24 September 2017 with numerous works by artist Ragnar Kjartansson on show in Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús.

Reykjavík Art Museum is open during Easter holiday except Easter Sunday, 16 April. Then the museum is closed.

Free entrance for holders of Annual Pass/Culture Pass.

The Imagine Peace Tower in Viðey island will be illuminated Monday, 20 March, the day Yoko Ono and John Lennon got married in 1969. Their wedding was followed by a week-long honeymoon where Lennon and Ono staged a “Bed-In” for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.