Museums in Iceland

By theme

How Iceland’s museums split across the six broad themes. Museums catalogued simply as “a museum”, with no narrower type recorded, fall under General.

A sample of museums

A selection of 60 of Iceland’s 62 museums, alphabetically. Open the map to explore them all by location.

Akranes Museum Centre · Akureyri Art Museum · Akureyri Museum · Árbæjarsafn · Ásmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum · Bjarnahöfn Shark Museum · Byggðasafn Árnesinga · Davíðshús · Duus Safnahús · Einar Jónsson Museum · Eiríksstaðir · Fuglasafn Sigurgeirs · Galdrasýning á Ströndum · Gamlabúð Folk Museum · Glaumbær Folk Museum · Gljúfrasteinn · Gunnar Gunnarsson's house · Hafnarborg · Hafnarhús · Hallsteinsgarður · Heimilisiðnaðarsafnið · Hnjótur Museum · Höfn Glacier Museum · Hornafjörður Art Museum · Huldusteinn · Húsavík Whale Museum · Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Art · Icelandic Phallological Museum · Icelandic Punk Museum · Kjarvalsstaðir · Maritime Museum at Hellissandur · National Gallery of Iceland · National Museum of Iceland · Ósvör · Reykjavik Art Museum · Reykjavík City Museum · Reykjavik Maritime Museum · Reykjavík Museum of Photography · Rjómabúið á Baugsstöðum · Safnasafnid Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum · Saga Museum · Samúel Jónsson's Art Farm · Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum · Sjóminjasafn Austurlands · Skógasafn · Steinasafn Petru · Technical Museum of East Iceland · The Árnesinga Folk Museum · The Eurovision Museum · The Exploration Museum · The Herring Era Museum · The Icelandic Museum Museum · The Icelandic Museum of Rock 'n' Roll · The Living Art Museum · the Settlement Exhibition · The Transportation Museum at Ystafell · Viking World museum · Volcano House · Westfjords Heritage Museum · Whales of Iceland