An Intimate Encounter with Sound and Vision: Laurie Anderson, Martha Mooke og Eyvind Kang at the National Gallery of Iceland

Three Violas

January 10, 2 – 4 PM
Nature's planets 
We experience Steina's magnificent artwork Of the North without our shoes on. Let's dance, rest, walk and enjoy being together in this wonderful visual world. Then we play around with creating circular artworks in the art workshop with fluid watercolor experiments.

The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.

Nature's planets

Krummi Kids' Club

Steina: Playback

Curators Tour

Do you have a little, weird shadow?
We look at shadow and reflection in Þórdís Zoega's work Routine in the large attic of the Culture House and play a little in the shadow room where we experience the mixing of light and multicolored shadows. After that, we create a shadow artwork and try it out in our fun shadow theater.

Do you have a little, weird shadow?

Viking Drawing 
In the Einar Jónsson Museum at Skólavörðuholt, gigantic super-beautiful statues are hidden in adventurous halls. In the Blue Hall you will find a statue of a Viking that we are going to examine, walk around and practice drawing from different angles.

Viking Drawing

Agnieszka Polska

Artist Talk

Seas’ Blue Yonder

Affinities of Form & The Architecture of Place

Curators’ Tour

Curator’s Tour

Ghost workshop 
Ghosts stories are a part of Icelandic folklore. We look at the ghost artworks in the exhibition Stay and Turn to Stone – especially Bjargey Ólafsdóttir's artwork The Little Pink Rose Ghost – and create our own ghosts that then fly home with us!

The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.

Ghost workshop

Dragon at the Einar Jónsson Museum 
In the red room of the Einar Jónsson Museum you will find a large dragon. We look at it carefully and then find our own inner dragon and turn it into a work of art. Families can design their own family of dragons.

The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.

Dragon at the Einar Jónsson Museum

Krummi Kids’ Club

The Architecture of Place – Hörður Ágústsson and Donald Judd

Guided tour by a specialist

House-dreaming workshop
We look at the works of Donald Judd and Hördur Ágústsson in the exhibition Architecture of Place and then design our own dream-house world in the art workshop on the 2nd floor.

House-dreaming workshop

Troll Pet 
Our trolls are big and fearsome and many artists have made them their subject in their artworks. We will especially look at Night Troll with a Guide Dog by artist Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson in the exhibition Stay and Turn to Stone and then create a large pet that trolls could have.

Troll Pet

Innocent Bodies

Sculpture workshop 
We study sculptures at the Einar Jónsson Museum and shape our own figures in clay. Creative materials will be used including vires, aluminum foil, and clay.

Sculpture workshop

Seas‘ Blue Yonder

Symposium

Stay and Turn to Stone – Treasure hunt
Treasure hunt in the exhibition Stay and Turn to Stone – Where did the Elf Queen go? Outside in the moonlight perhaps? Who is the blind dog leading? How many ghosts are there in the artwork Self-Portrait with Seven Ghosts? Those who dare can then come and create spooky folklore creatures.

The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.

Treasure hunt

Affinities of Form: Artistic Convergences in Iceland since 1970

Children's Culture Festival 2026
The settler Ingólfur Arnarson looks over Reykjavík from his pedestal at Arnarhóll, but stands also in the blue hall of the Einar Jónsson Museum. We sit down with Ingólfur in the Blue Hall and help him make high seat pillars and decorate them in a modern way with patterns and colors.
The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.

Children's Culture Festival 2026

Sparkling Sand Workshop 
On the way up the stairs in the museum we see a large wall-art by Ragna Róbertsdóttir that glitters like jewels. We examine it with flashlights and see the light sparkling in the glass, and then make our own artwork in the spirit of Ragna's murals with sand and natural materials.

Sparkling Workshop

Elf Crown Workshop 
Elves and hidden people are creatures of nature that protect nature and are an important part of Icelandic folklore. We look at the works at the exhibition Stay and Turn to Stone, especially the beautiful elf queen with a magnificent crown in Finnur Jónsson's work; I Stood Outside in the Moonlight. Then we use various materials to decorate our own crowns that we make together.
The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.

Elf Crown Workshop

Princess workshop in the sculpture garden
In the sculpture garden by the Einar Jónsson Museum there is a beautiful statue of a Princess sleeping in a Harp. The statue is connected to the story of Sigurður Fáfnisbani. We look at the statue from all angles and create our own version of it. Anyone who wants to can come in princely or princess costumes. What kind of instrument would you like to sleep in?

The Krummi Kids’ Club hosts a fun and engaging program every month, inviting curious children to discover the artworks in the National Gallery of Iceland’s collection, create their own masterpieces, and play in a stimulating and enriching environment.                                                                                             

Princess workshop in the sculpture garden

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The National Gallery wishes you happy holidays and a wonderful New Year. Please note that the National Gallery and the House of Collections will be closed on
24 December 2025, 25 December 2025, 31 December 2025, and 1 January 2026.

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