Travelling exhibitions
Primary schools can borrow specially designed educational exhibitions for their schools.
These come in two chests that open up into a small exhibition space that can be set up in a classroom or an open space in the school. Each travelling exhibition contains about ten artworks and comes in specially designed chests on wheels, which are 180cm high, 70cm wide and 165cm long when closed, but measure around 8m2 when they are opened up.
The purpose of the travelling exhibitions and accompanying educational material is to provide teachers with inspiration and support for teaching. The artworks can be connected to visual arts studies and also serve as a learning platform in interdisciplinary studies and connected to the projects that are being conducted at any given time. The themes can easily be connected to many of the learning criteria of the national curriculum, e.g. in sociology and philosophy, as well as discussions about the creation and interpretation of one’s environment in general. It certainly connects to many of the main goals of the national curriculum, e.g. its basic elements such as creativity and sustainability. The content of this exhibition can also be linked to children's rights as stated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Elementary schools in Reykjavík are offered the travelling exhibitions free of charge. Schools in other municipalities are required to pay insurance and transport costs, but museum teacher guidance is included for free in the Reykjavík area
Email artmuseum@reykjavik.is to get the traveling exhibition to your school!
Travelling exhibition: Heima / Home
Home is a word that has a broad meaning and is often associated with positive feelings and memories in people’s minds.
Visual artists have dealt with the concept of home in a variety of ways over the years. Where is one’s home? In the universe, on earth, in Iceland, abroad, in Stykkishólmur, in the neighborhood, in the block, in the house, in the apartment, with your parents, with your children, with your grandparents, in a group of friends, at school, in your leisure activities, at work, in the armchair? Or maybe several places at the same time?
The word home often refers to an environment where we are safe. But some people don’t feel safe in their homes. The reason can be inside the home, e.g. stress, addiction problems and domestic violence, or external threats such as pandemics, poverty or war. Home is not the same for everyone.
We invite you home to a living room of joy and safety, where the artwork hangs on the walls, we invite students and teachers to walk in and enjoy art in a warm and homely environment, in their own school.