On June 16, a special exhibition on the vulture opened in the Museum on Hverfisgata, and the building's special exhibition space features exhibitions by the six institutions behind the exhibition Perspectives – A Journey Through the Icelandic Visual World.

The exhibition is a collaborative project between the Icelandic Museum of Natural History and artist Ólafur Nordal in collaboration with the National Library of Iceland – University Library and the Icelandic Institute of Natural History and is called Vulture † Pinguinus impennis Species extinction – The last sightings.

The vulture is an extinct species, but it is believed that the last two vultures on Earth were killed on Eldey off Reykjanes in June 1844. The birds were sent to the University of Copenhagen, where the birds' organs and entrails are still preserved in 11 glass jars in the Natural History Museum of Denmark. It is not known for certain where the birds' remains have ended up.

The exhibition features a stuffed vulture purchased in 1971, a drawing of a vulture hunting log from around 1770 showing the hunting of vultures and other blackbirds, and new works by Ólöfa Nordal: Eleven photographs of the organs and viscera of the last two vultures as preserved in the Natural History Museum of Denmark, an account of the killing of the last vultures on Eldey, and a video showing the hunting of a bird in the Vestmannaeyjar Islands.

Further information is available on the website of the Icelandic Natural History Museum: http://nmsi.is/