Museum Night will be held on Friday evening, February 7th from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM.

The Museum is hosting the exhibition Perspectives – a journey through the Icelandic visual world . The Museum's seven wings offer as many perspectives. They connect different works of art and interesting objects, across subjects and periods.
The exhibition is a collaborative project between the National Museum of Iceland, the Art Museum of Iceland, the Natural History Museum of Iceland, the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the National Archives of Iceland, and the National Library of Iceland – University Library.

Guðrún Laufey Guðmundsdóttir will be giving an expert guided tour organized by the National Library of Iceland at Museum Night on Friday evening, February 7, 2020, at 8-9 p.m.

Icelandic magical manuscripts from the 17th century are very rare, but a considerable number of magical manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in the manuscript collection of the National Library of Iceland. Among these manuscripts is a small Galdrakver on leather from 1670, which contains Advice for Protection against Evil Forces in this and the Other World . Icelandic magical staves are closely related to runes, which were combined into curious symbols; these magical staves then lived among the people for centuries, as younger manuscripts testify.

Guðrún Laufey Guðmundsdóttir (b. 1975) holds an MA in history from the University of Iceland. She works as a specialist in the manuscript collection of the National Library of Iceland-University Library.