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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 26. She was the first female director of the museum.
The October favorites 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, director of the Women's History Museum, received the archive
Jón Árnason was librarian at the Archdiocese Library, which was later named the National Library, from 1848 to 1887. He was the first employee of the library, but previously the library's board of directors had
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. The statue was presented on August 7th.
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 called the nation's beloved father-in-law. Jónas grew up
Advent, a novel by Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975), is the Icelandic Christmas story that has been translated into more languages than any other story by the author.