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The Icelandic Women's History Museum was founded on New Year's Day 1975 at the home of Anna Sigurðardóttir (December 5, 1908 – January 1996) at Hjarðarhagi on 26… Read More » Anna Sigurðardóttir – honorary doctorate at the University of Iceland

The October selections are two scrapbooks that the Women's Day Executive Committee compiled and donated to the Women's History Museum along with its entire archive. Anna Sigurðardóttir,… Read More » Scrapbooks of the Women's Day Executive Committee

Jón Árnason was a librarian at the Collegiate Library, which was later named the National Library, from 1848 to 1887. He was the first employee of the library,… Read More » Report on books donated to the Collegiate Library in 1874

The City of Copenhagen decided to give Icelanders a statue of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) on the occasion of the National Day of 1874 and the 1000th anniversary of the settlement of Iceland.… Read More » A Sketch of Thorvaldsen's Artistic and Social Life by Carl Frederik Wilckens

Autograph of Jónas Hallgrímsson. Jónas was a revered and influential poet and writer in the early nineteenth century, as well as a renowned naturalist, sometimes… Read More » End of Journey. ÍB 13 fol.

Advent, a novel by Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975), is the Icelandic Christmas story that has traveled to many countries and been read in more… Read More » Þórður Jónsson's episode about Fjalla-Bensi – the beginning of Advent

The Women's History Museum was founded on January 1, 1975 by three women: Anna Sigurðardóttir, Elsa Mia Einarsdóttir, and Svanlauga Baldursdóttir. It was founded on… Read More » The Women's History Museum – Articles of Association