Ephemera

The Iceland National Collection preserves all printed material published in Iceland. In addition to books, magazines and newspapers, the museum also preserves so-called ephemera.

The ephemera can range from a single sheet to a thick brochure from a car dealership or anything about paving. This includes, for example, promotional brochures, travel brochures, itineraries, guides, advertisements, product descriptions, sales catalogues, Feess, poems, funeral prints, single sheets, play catalogues, exhibition catalogues, concert catalogues, postcards, Christmas cards, playing cards, diaries, pocket books, bookmarks, calendars and posters.

The user group for this material is broad, but most often writers and biographers who are writing trade-history, union- or business history, and local history. They study the paraphernalia and obtain images, for example, of advertisements, flyers, concert schedules, Feess, or posters for publications that are being written.

The ephemera can only be lent to the Iceland National Collection's reading room, like all other publications.