Welcome to Iceland Guest - Your Online Travel Guide.

Iceland Guest is an information website for your travel to Iceland. On this site you can get all the tourist information you need for your vacation in Iceland. We hope that you will find this online travel guide useful in planning your holidays in Iceland.

About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

Museum and Culture

The Culture House - Hverfisgata 15 Reykjavik, Tel. 545 1400

The Culture House

Icelandic cultural heritage and natural treasures.

In an old and magnificent building located in the heart of the city centre, the Icelandic cultural heritage and natural treasures are on display in the Culture House. The building, which was designed by a Danish architect, Johannes Magdahl Nielsen, opened in the year 1909 and is one of the greatest structures in Iceland.

The Culture House offers a wide range of exhibitions, some permanent and others temporary, with the aim to provide insight into the history and culture of Iceland and its inhabitants. One of the permanent exhibitions is the Medieval Manuscripts - Eddas and Sagas, which features a collection of old manuscripts, unique sagas, poems and narratives such as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. These ancient vellums are an indescribable source about the pagan times in Northern Europe, the religion, the society and the people. The exhibition also holds an area where you can learn the process of the book-making and see how the vellum was prepared.

Upstairs is the Library room, which holds a magnificent collection of Iceland's printed works from the ancient times until the latter part of the 20th century. There you can observe the Icelandic publishing history and bookbinding.

Diverse special exhibitions are always held in the Culture House, containing various artefacts and photographs. Now they offer an installation of how The National Museum was in the past when it was located in the Culture House by recreating the atmosphere like it was in the early decades of the 20th century. The Road to Zion, another special exhibition, explores the passage of the Icelandic emigrants to Utah in the mid-19th century.

A visit to the museum is sure to be enlightening and inspiring and afterwards you can browse in the souvenir shop and get some refreshments at the café, called Food and Culture, where the chef serves light meals, freshly baked bread, various drinks and other delicacies.

Opening hours
The showrooms are open from 11:00 - 17:00.

The Culture House
Hverfisgata 15
101 Reykjavík
Iceland
Tel. 545 1400
Website: www.thjodmenning.is