Tucked away in a narrow valley just below the town of Akureyri in North Iceland, Sverrir Hermansson’s Museum of Sundry … More
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A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (Museums in Strange Places S01 E12)
The Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri is filled with great stories: locals crashing a Nazi glider into an open grave, … More
Community-Centered Contemporary Art in the Heart of Hafnarfjörður (Museums in Strange Places S01 E08)
How does a contemporary art institution– places that are notoriously elitist–provide a thriving cultural center in a town’s that on … More
Celtic Connections on the Icelandic Coast: A Visit to the Akranes Folk Museum (Museums in Strange Places S01 E07)
Akranes is a coastal town in the southwest region of Iceland with a growing population of about 7,000. They have … More
A Family, a Mineral Collection, and a Museum in a Gas Station (Museums in Strange Places S01 E06)
Hafsteinn Thor has always been interested in geology, nature, biology, and philosophy (and acting, directing, singing, and learning new instruments…he’s … More
Keeping the Legacy of a Medieval Legend Alive at Snorrastofa (Museums in Strange Places S01 E05)
I visit the Snorrastofa, a research and cultural center at Reykholt, the farm in southwestern Iceland where the great medieval … More
The Future of History at the Reykjavík City Museum (Museums in Strange Places S01 E04)
In the fourth episode of the Museums in Strange Places podcast, I visit the Reykjavík City Museum to talk with … More
A Writer’s Home: Gljúfrasteinn-Laxness Museum (Museums in Strange Places S01 E03)
In this episode, I drive thirty minutes outside of Reykjavík to visit Gljúfrasteinn, the museum–and former home–of writer and Nobel laureate … More
The Icelandic Punk Museum (Museums in Strange Places S01 E02)
In episode two, I descend into the historic city public toilets of downtown Reykjavík to check out one of the … More
Bonus Ep: What Makes an Open Air Museum Memorable (Museums in Strange Places Podcast)
I’ve just released a bonus episode of Museums in Strange Places featuring extra content from my interview with Sigurlaugur Ingólfsson, … More
