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On Thursday, April 5, Pétur H. Ármannsson, architect and director of the Icelandic National Heritage Institute, will deliver a talk titled “The most important and elaborate stone house of this… Read More » The Museum of Times 1818-2018. Talk by Pétur H. Ármannsson April 5
Stream from the Project Week agenda in the lecture hall Project Week 2018 at the National LibraryThursday, March 22nd at 5:00 PM–10:00 PM Work on projects for one evening in… Read More » Project Week 2018 at the National Library – agenda streamed from the lecture hall
On March 14th, an exhibition was opened at the National Library in collaboration with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Anniversary Committee of the Sovereignty Year on the occasion of… Read More » Exhibition on Edda II – The Life of the Gods by Jón Leif
At the Humanities Conference on Saturday, staff from the Manuscript Collection and the Women's History Museum will talk about the sources used in connection with the project "R1918."… Read More » Reykjavík in 1918: the perspective of personal sources
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) – great poet and scientist The Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies holds a symposium, which was to be held… Read More » The Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies – symposium on Goethe
The National Library of Iceland participates in the Museum Night with Gunnar Marel Hinriksson, a specialist in the manuscript collection, talking about Bishop Guðbrandur's maps of Iceland and… Read More » Museum House on Museum Night
The personal archives of Nobel Prize winner Haldór Laxness are preserved in the Manuscript Collection of the National Library of Iceland. Among other things, there are many copies of his works,… Read More » The personal archives of Nobel Prize winner Haldór Laxness
The National and University Library of Iceland has now taken over the website openaccess.is/opinnadgangur.is again and will be responsible for its operation in the future. The website… Read More » New information website about open access
In 2018, the National Library of Iceland – University Library celebrates 200 years since its founding. On that occasion, the library… Read More » The Library of the Times 1818 – 2018. Address by the President of Iceland, January 11
On November 9, 2017, the National Library of Iceland – University Library signed the Expression of Interest in the Large-scale Implementation of Open Access to… Read More » Signing of the Declaration on Open Access – OA2020