The Reykjavik Art Museum is Iceland's largest art museum — spread across three buildings (Hafnarhús by the harbour, Kjarvalsstaðir on the eastern edge of the old town, and Ásmundarsafn north of the centre), each with its own focus. Hafnarhús, the main waterfront building in a converted 1930s warehouse, houses contemporary Icelandic art including the definitive collection of Erró (Guðmundur Guðmundsson), Iceland's most internationally known living artist whose pop-art collages and political paintings fill an entire dedicated wing.
Kjarvalsstaðir is dedicated to Jóhannes Kjarval (1885-1972), Iceland's national artist, whose paintings of the Icelandic landscape — with its bizarre lava forms, mosses, and northern light — became fundamental to the country's visual identity. Ásmundarsafn is the sculpture garden and former studio of Ásmundur Sveinsson. A single ticket includes all three buildings.
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The museum is spread across three buildings
Hafnarhús is housed in a converted 1930s harbour warehouse
Erró is Iceland's most internationally known living artist
Kjarval is considered Iceland's national artist
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Tryggvagata 17, Reykjavik
