Opening hours

Summer (9.5 - 25.8)

Winter hours
Service desks on 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor
Mon-Fri 9:00-17:00
Sat (May 10 - May 31) 10:00-14:00
Sun (May 10 - May 31) CLOSED
Sat - Sun (June 1 - August 25) CLOSED
Reference desk on 2nd floor
Mon-Fri 09:00-16:00

Icelandic National Collection, Manuscript Department and reading room on 1st floor
Sat-Sun CLOSED



The following special collections are open on weekdays by appointment:

  • Women‘s History Archives, kvennasogusafn (at) landsbokasafn.is, tel. 525 5779
  • Center of Oral History, munnlegsaga (at) landsbokasafn.is, tel. 525 5775
  • Theater museum, leikminjasafn (at) landsbokasafn.is, tel. 525 5673
  • Audio-visual department, hljodogmyndsafn (at) landsbokasafn.is, tel. 525 5774

For opening hours of the Law library at the Faculty of Law building (Lögberg), see here.


Summer closure 2025

The National and University Library will be closed from 21.7.-05.08.2025




Public holidays

The Library is closed on public holidays.

Extended opening hours during exam periods at the University of Iceland is specially advertised

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