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Added by Jopie, at 12 April 2016
Opening Hours
- Monday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Tuesday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Wednesday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Thursday 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
- Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sunday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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13 Reviews
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15 June 2018
This museum has a tinny collection of art and it is over 1000 kr for entrance. Not worth it! Expand the exhibits!
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12 May 2018
Reykjavík’s Art Museum is spread over three sites with a single ticket covering 24 hour access to all locations.
The primary location is a huge restored warehouse near the Old Harbour with multiple rooms and exhibition spaces, also doubling as a venue during the annual Airwaves festival each November.
There are cutting edge exhibits across a number of art forms including paintings, sculptures and aural/video installations, as well as a long running homage to comic book style paintings.
There’s also a well positioned cafe offering tremendous views across the Old Harbour.response / report this review -
26 March 2018
Cute place with some amazing pieces of art and a nice shop. Good for taking a rest from roaming the city of Reykjavik.
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16 November 2017
Very cool contemporary art museum showing some of Iceland's modern and weirdest artist. It's small but had a great time here!
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29 October 2017
First off, I must say the building is gorgeous. The galleries are arranged in a fantastic way, I loved that part of it. I feel almost bad for the low rating, because I did not want to be reviewing the art, but here I am. I'm a fan of modern and contemporary art, the upper level had some exhibitions of fair work. One series of pencil sketches was literally an assignment I was given in art school in 1999, and it did feel more like a student show than a national level gallery. My main gripe is with the main gallery showing of Erro's work. Almost all his contemporary work is doing a small collage and then recreating it as a large scale painting, which is fine, but nearly every piece of this work is based off comic book art by Jack Kirby, and Kirby is credited no where. It's immensely distasteful and disrespectful for Erro to be using Kirby, who worked in American comics for over 50 years and created some of the most important work in the genre, to further his own career without at least mentioning that nearly every work shown is directly lifted from Kirby. Other comic artists are used as well, R. Crumb, John Byrne, both John and Sal Buscema to mention a few, and no credit is given. Erro's work is well done, it's just more the work of comic artists than it is his own.
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27 September 2017
MODERN art museum, nearly all shows will be by contemporary artists and you need to look into what show is going on, there is no big permanent show. Make sure you like the artist before wasting your time on something that doesn't appeal to you.
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16 September 2017
Beautiful building, but the art inside What is? Why? Really no sense, sparse
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27 August 2017
Beautiful building. However art is very strange, and very sparse. Ie. There would be a big room with a single projector, or a large room with a TV. A bit bare and not as beautiful.. .maybe I'm not that into modern art. :)
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03 April 2017
The building is pretty cool but the exhibits were, in all honesty, a bit too sparse, weird and not interesting in a make you ponder kind of way. Definitely wish we hadn't spent money on that admission fee.
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21 January 2017
Very Good for art lovers, not a great place to bring kids. This gallery features installation art work along with the pictures like the one attached to this review. Some of the work is in very dark rooms with scary sounds. Obviously this is not a negative about the work, just be warned if considering pushing your stroller in. Yoko Ono has a few pieces featured here, one is a phone in which you are encouraged to answer if it rings (she apparently randomly calls) the other is a wall of women's eyes and experiences with sexual inequality. Another galley encourages the visitor to participate, drawing on the walls, adding to the art itself.
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02 October 2016
The gallery was mostly closed, however you still paid full price for the two exhibits open. One of which was an American photographer. The other, ironically, was a very minimalist exhibit that the term ' empty room' could capture. Art imitating life. Waste of money.
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26 April 2016
I am personally not a big fan of art and sculptures, but there is some thing about his museum, it shows the works of Asmundur Sveinsson and was opened in 1983. They have sculptures in the garden surrounding the museum. Asmundur was one of the pioneers of Icelandic sculpture. There is a small shop where you can buy a copy of his works.
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19 April 2016
Le musée est lui même une oeuvre d'art. Les sculptures exposées aussi bien à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur dégagent une grande puissance et/ou une belle sérénité. Nous nous sommes régalés, y sommes restés presque seuls pendant 2 heures : un très beau souvenir !
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