National Museum of Iceland
Antiquarian collection of medieval carvings, Viking-age silver, and saga-era artifacts.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik asks who owned the country's treasures before it had a museum of its own, when Iceland was still Danish territory and its finest objects kept crossing the sea to Copenhagen. It follows the 1863 founding of the collection, its first curator Jon Arnason, and the painter Sigurdur Gudmundsson who fought for decades to grow it without a permanent home. For roughly forty years the collection sat simply stored in an attic.
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