The National Gallery houses Iceland´s national art collection, which centres on Icelandic and international art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is the greatest single collection of Icelandic art and represents all the nation´s main artists, and also contains a growing collection of work by famous international artists. The

Árbæjarsafn was established by the City of Reykjavík in 1957 as an open- air museum to preserve and show selected old houses. The aim was to give the public an idea of the architecture and the lifestyle of the past. The museum is built around the old

Kopavogur Art Gallery Gerdarsafn Hamraborg 4 IS-200 Kópavogur

Sjominjasafnid Vesturgata 8 IS-220 Hafnarfjörður

Museum of Medical History Nesstofa IS-170 Seltjarnarnes