Playing with Colors and Stipes
January 18th, 14:00–16:00
Dieter Roth’s artwork in the exhibition Looking Inward, Looking Outward will inspire creativity as we reflect on the possibilities of paper, aiming to weave our own paper artworks. This creativity also involves playing with colors, in either black-and-white works or works that explore the color spectrum.

Playing with Colors and Stipes

Troll Play and Clay Workshop with Ūgh and Bõögâr and Egill Sæbjörnsson
January 25th, 14:00–16:00
A fun kids' club event where we make trolls and troll jewelry out of clay and listen to a reading by Egill Sæbjörnsson, the visual artist, from his newly translated book about the trolls Ūgh and Bõögâr. The folklore exhibition Stand Still and Turn to Stone, which features ghosts, elves, and trolls is open in the Project Gallery, where you can see a Egill’s troll ring and imagine the size of a troll!

Troll Play and Clay Workshop with Ūgh and Bõögâr and Egill Sæbjörnsson

What Did I Do Today?
February 1st and 15th, 14:00–16:00
We explore our own everyday life and find inspiration from photographs in the exhibition Intimacies in the Everyday. The graphic novel format will be used in the workshop, with photographs also playing a role.  

What Did I Do Today?

Fly, Fly Butterfly
February 8th and 22nd, 14:00–16:00
We flutter into the Museum, fly through the beautiful installation DeCore by Dodda Maggý, and then create our own butterflies to fly home with. We reflect on nature, symmetry, and patterns that appear to us every day.

Fly, Fly Butterfly

Krakkaklúbburinn Krummi

Fly on the Wall
March 1st and 15th, 14:00–16:00
We will explore the work The Victorious Army by Magnús Tómasson in the exhibition Looking Inward, Looking Outward and a variety of flies in the form of sculptures will spring up from the workshop at the museum. Flies matter in the world, and it is interesting to reflect on their role in the ecosystem. They can also be colorful and in many sizes and shapes, just like all of us.

Fly on the Wall

Glacier Mice
March 8th and 22nd, 14:00–16:00
We meet in the Museum, enter an ice cave and explore glaciers of all sizes and shapes before creating our own glacier mice – the beautiful plants that gather on the sunny side of stones on glaciers – from stones, wool, and thread.

Glacier Mice

Pizza Pizza – Can Toy Pizza Be Artwork?
April 5th, 14:00–16:00
We create sculptures from found objects, transforming old items we no longer use into interesting works of art. In this kids' club, you're welcome to bring small items that are no longer in use and need a new purpose. Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir’s exhibition that’s a Very Large Number — A Commerzbau will inspire us, where among other artworks there is an oversized toy pizza.

Can Toy Pizza Be Artwork?

Children's Culture Festival – The Trolls in the Mountains
April 12th, 14:00–16:00
We draw large trolls with the famous author Brian Pilkington and take a picture with the troll Tufta, who visits the main hall of the Museum during the Children’s Culture Festival.

The Trolls in the Mountains

Children's Culture Festival

I Stood Outside in the Moonlight
April 26th, 14:00–16:00
We will explore Finnur Jónsson's artworks about  elves and the Elf Queen, as well as Óskasteinar (Wish Stones) by Björg Þorsteinsdóttir, which are on display in the Museum. Afterward, we will create our own sparkling wish stones that will last a lifetime. What do you wish for?

I Stood Outside in the Moonlight

The Flying Bird
May 10th and 24th, 14:00–16:00
We explore birds in the exhibition Resistance; white ravens, the famous lapwing, and the swans with long necks, and paint our own beautiful birds that will fly with us into the summer. The bird workshop on May 24th is the last workshop of the winter season in the kids' club, but a new program will be released in the fall.

The Flying Bird

What Time Is It?
May 17th, 14:00–16:00
After visiting the exhibition The Clock, we reflect on time and create our own clocks that we can set to the time that works best for each person. Large and small clocks, alarm clocks, watches, mantel clocks that are new and old, funny, decorative, or simple.

What Time Is It?

The National Gallery's research-library emphasises the preservation and dissemination of material related to the Gallery's areas of research, i.e. Icelandic visual art. The research-library contains books, catalogues and a collection of clippings on Icelandic art from newspapers and magazines, as well as a collection of digital images of works of art in the Gallery's collection.

Research library

The research-library is open by appointment. 

The research-library is located in the National Gallery's office building at Laufásvegur 12, 101 Reykjavík.

Manager of Research Library is Elín Guðjónsdóttir 
Phone +354 515 9603
elin@listasafn.is

The research-library is a member of Arlis / Norden – the organization of art libraries in the Nordic countries.

Research Library

The research-library is open by appointment.

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