Akureyri Art Museum
The Akureyri Art Museum was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of Akureyri, the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the gallery is noted as a good example of the Bauhaus school of architecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JasonParis, CC BY 2.0.
- Opening hours:
May—September: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
October—April: noon—5:00 PM
December 24th—December 25th and December 31st—January 1st: closed - Email: listak@listak.is
- Type: Art gallery
- Description: art museum
- Address: Kaupvangsstræti 8, 600
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Akureyrarkirkja and Church of St. Peter.
Akureyrarkirkja
Church
Photo: Jon Gretarsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akureyrarkirkja or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at Akureyri in northern Iceland. Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson and completed in 1940.
Church of St. Peter
Church
Photo: TommyBee, Public domain.
St. Peter's Church is a religious building of the Catholic Church which is located in Eyrarlandsvegi 26, in the town of Akureyri, Norduland Eystra in Iceland, and named after Saint Peter. Church of St. Peter is situated 330 metres south of Akureyri Art Museum.
Akureyri Botanical Garden
Garden
Photo: RenJJ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Akureyri Botanical Garden is a unique and significant botanical garden located in the southern part of Akureyri, a city in Northern Iceland. Situated on the west side of the inland end of the fjord Eyjafjörður, at an elevation of about 45 metres, the garden is one of the northernmost botanical gardens in the world, just 85 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. Akureyri Botanical Garden is situated 600 metres south of Akureyri Art Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Svalbarðseyri.
Svalbarðseyri
Village
Photo: Navaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Svalbarðseyri is a small village in the Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur municipality, northern Iceland, which in January 2011 had 245 inhabitants. It is located on the east coast of Eyjafjörður fjord. Svalbarðseyri is situated 7 km north of Akureyri Art Museum.
Akureyri Art Museum
- Categories: art museum and tourism
- Location: Akureyri, Northeast, North Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.68044° or 65° 40′ 50″ northLongitude
-18.09193° or 18° 5′ 31″ westOpen location code
9CQ3MWJ5+56OpenStreetMap ID
way 707030896OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=galleryOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q1629739
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Russian—“Akureyri Art Museum” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Мастацкі музей Акурэйры”
- Belarusian: “Мастацкі музей Акюрэйры”
- Belarusian: “Мастацкі музэй Акюрэйры”
- Danish: “Akureyri Kunstmuseum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف اكوريرى للفنون”
- German: “Kunstmuseum Akureyri”
- Icelandic: “Listasafnið á Akureyri”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akureyri Kunstmuseum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Listasafnið á Akureyri”
- Russian: “Художественный музей Акюрейри”
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Highlights include Norden - Norræna upplýsingaskrifstofan and Ferðamálastofa.
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