Gerðarsafn is a progressive museum with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art, located in the heart of Kópavogur. Gerðarsafn offers temporary exhibitions with works by Icelandic and international contemporary artists as well as displaying the museum collection. The exhibition program echoes the museum‘s status as the only Icelandic museum built in honor of a woman artist.

The museum was built in memory of artist Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975) and opened in 1994. Gerður Helgadóttir was a pioneer of three-dimensional abstract art and glass art in Iceland. The museum collection holds over fourteen hundred works by Gerður Helgadóttir and an extensive collection of works by the 20th-century artists Barbara Árnason, Magnús Á. Árnason and Valgerður Briem among works by various contemporary artists. One of the biggest private collections of Icelandic art from the last century, collected by Þorvaldur Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, is in the custody of the museum. The private collection includes works by major artists of the first half of the last century.

Opening hours:

Thursdays to Sundays 11:00 – 17:00

The bistro Garðskalinn is on the museum‘s lower floor. 

Bus routes:

Bus no 1: Hlemmur; Kópavogur; Garðabær; Fjörður; Vellir. Every 15 minutes

Bus no 2: Hlemmur; Kringlan; Hamraborg; Smáralind; Salahverfi. Every 30 minutes

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