Name: The Culture House - Museum
Address: Hverfisgata 15, 101 ReykjavÃk, Iceland, IS
Telephone: +354 530 2210

The Culture House - Museum is a museum, located at Hverfisgata 15, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland. They can be contacted via phone at +354 530 2210, visit their website www.culturehouse.is for more detailed information.

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Hverfisgata 15, 101 Reykjavík

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Added by Jopie, at 13 December 2016

Monday Closed
Tuesday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday 10:00 AM – 5:00 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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Ladislav Carda

23 April 2018

Beatiful house full of history. Best is to start from the top floor and go down. You can find a great library with full of history in it. There is also Giftshop. But for me it was pretty boring (no hard feelings). :/ Ticket is 2000KR, but you can go on this ticket also to National Museum of Iceland! Which is great. If i have to choose, that i can say, National Museum of Iceland is nobrainer, you have to see it.
Dan Minster

07 March 2018

When visiting Iceland, and Reykjavik in particular, the Culture House is a great place to start exploring the culture and history of the Icelandic people. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, and other works of art, alongside other cultural pieces. All of this is housed in an impressive building.
Tips: free entry included with Reykjavik City Card; there are free lockers; set aside 1.5-2.5 hours here.
Mat Richardson

01 February 2018

Best to work your way down from the gallery on the top floor to the lesser historic pieces on the lowest level. The Culture House is an intriguing collection of Icelandic art and history, yet it comes across as somewhat of a mish-mash of ideas.

The artwork on the top floor mostly relates to man and his relationship with the island, the ash and pumice often underfoot suspended on the walls or vivid volcanic displays. Yet, as you go down broader and less unique ideas are brought into play. Man and his relationship with death, for one. With a model of the young deceased next to a now much older descendant.

The first floor is the most disappointing, though the former reading room is beautiful. Sparingly filled with old touristic leaflets, old books, and maps, it feels extremely empty. Compared to the upper floors it is disappointing, and as the material is away behind glass, somewhat dull.

I'd recommend a visit to the Culture House, particularly in conjunction with the Icelandic National Museum, but I was in here for 45 minutes. It is not worth the lone visit, unless you are particularly interested in the artwork on the upper floors.
Matthías Valdimarsson

30 January 2018

A great variety of small exhibitions but a general lack of focus and small size drag it down a point. The manuscripts make it unmissable though and being ticketed with the national museum makes it not so expensive as it first seems.

Well worth a look if you have an hour to spare or are going to the national museum as well.
Kevin P

28 January 2018

Very diverse selection of art. Only needed an hour to see everything. Ticket also have access to national museum.
Roisin Moore

27 January 2018

Very interesting to visit, we went on the last day of our visit and were very impressed by the different pieces to see throughout the four levels.
Anita Curtin

22 December 2017

Not much to see here in all honesty. Other exhibitions in Reykjavik are a lot better.
Melanie Galuten

07 December 2017

We visited here in April with two teens in tow and we all had a terrific time. We got to see a great sculpture exhibit. The building has been beautifully restored. Highly recommended.
Charles J. Bondi

23 August 2017

Ágúst 19 heimsótti ég Safnahúsið í Reykjavík. Kennarin Ragna útskýrði landið, fólkið, menninguna með skilningi og kímni. Það var tími mjög þess virði!

A good docent can make all the difference. I speak from experience, having visit Pompeii (great docent!), Herculaneum (not so good), Morgan Library in NYC (excellent Edgar Alan Poe tour). On August 19, my last day in Iceland before flying out, I was extremely lucky and privileged. Ragna, the docent, conducted a tour of each floor with insight the land, people, and culture of Iceland as it pertained to the exhibit. She did this all with insight, humor, and of course, with great language skill. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and informative tour. - Charles J. Bondi, Gaithersburg MD.
Matthew Lane

22 July 2017

Good museum in many respects, though sometimes with a coherent progression. Some of Iceland's great art is here, along with some very useful historical context, and some of the most interesting documents existing about the history of the country. The layout was at times confusing, and some exhibits didn't seem to have enough written justification. Our favourite exhibit was on the 18th century census. 1.5 hours.
Samuel Park

03 July 2017

Art pieces and cultural artifacts haphazardly put together. No thematic element to tie things together, which if that was the purpose, failed to leave any memorable mark to the city.
It had beautiful design and was a truly unique building.
Stuart Clough

29 June 2017

A but of a mish mash of historical things. If there was some coherent story or objective I missed it. Between this and the main museum, I think that Iceland has failed to tell personal stories or to relate what real life was about in historical iceland. This is a missed opportunity as the stories that I have read in various historical novels have been so compelling yet the museums are capturing nothing of the harshness of life in early Iceland.
Rupert Langford

18 June 2017

Very disappointing. Had it not been for the ticket we had previously paid for at another site of theirs we would have spent 2000k on the tickets per person. This was wholly not worth even half that. Similarly to the modern art gallery it was full of uninteresting pieces.
Mario Limon

09 June 2017

I'm kind of a museum buff, and the fact Culture house was included with the National museum purchase makes it worth visiting. You won't be wowed by any means. The art is eclectic and focuses on Icelandic artists. Some of the artifacts in the museum are interesting as they give an optic into Icelandic culture.

Would I come here as an sole museum visit, no. But, if you are heading to the National Museum which was well worth it, a visit to The Culture house would suit well.
Eric Holloway

04 April 2017

It was.interesting, to say the least.
Virginia Bosch

15 March 2017

I am a big museum fan and this one really let me down. The exhibitions weren't very interesting, we spent about 15' waking around feeling like we were completely wasting our time. I would not recommend it.
Tyler Quiring

12 March 2017

Lots of good art, exactly what I was missing from the national museum.
Maggie B

08 March 2017

Interesting experience connecting art and history. Worth going to in conjunction with the National History museum.
Espen Pettersen

20 December 2016

Pretty boring, some videos no intetaction.