Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum

This guide to Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum in Reykjavik follows Þorvaldur Guðmundsson, a herring trader who built an empire of shops, hotels and restaurants and earned Icelanders' nickname the tax king. Alongside his wife, the pharmacist Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, he quietly spent years buying art on the side, while the museum itself began in 1994 to house sculptor Gerður Helgadóttir's studio pieces, rescued from her Paris studio after her death. Take a slow look around the galleries, built from two very different collections brought under one roof.