The Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum was found­ed in 1984 by the artist's widow Birgitta Spur who had his studio and their home con­vert­ed to a mus­eum build­ing, open­ed for publ­ic in 1988. In 2012 the muse­um, in­clud­ing a large col­lect­ion of Sigur­jón Ólafs­son's sculp­tur­es, was donat­ed to the Nat­ion­al Gal­lery of Ice­land and was run as a div­is­ion of it for al­most a dec­ade. Since Dec­emb­er 2021 the Museum has been run by Gríma ltd., a manage­ment com­pany dir­ect­ed by Sigur­jón Ólafs­son's fam­ily members.
    The mus­eum is dedi­cat­ed to ex­hibit­ing Sigur­jón Ólafs­sons's sculp­tur­es - alone or in dia­logue with other art­ists. It also hous­es a vast amount of bio­graph­ical mat­erial and is the re­search cent­er of Sigur­jón Ólafs­son's work. In ad­di­tion to hous­ing dif­fer­ent ex­hib­itions the mus­eum spons­ors vari­ous cult­ural pro­grams.
Born in Iceland, Sigurjón Ólafsson (1908-1982) studied and worked in Denmark 1928-1945. After his return to Iceland he lived and worked in Laugarnes, Reykjavík.

Portrait exhibition
Face to Face

Rev. Friðrik Friðriksson LSÓ 1121

Concert
Hrólfur Sæmundsson baritone and Nína Margrét Grímsdóttir pano.
Songs of Travel by R.V. Williams, Six Songs Op 25 by E. Grieg and songs by Hrólfur Sæmundsson.
June 19 at 6pm
Tickets at the Museum and Tix.is
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum • Laugarnestangi 70 • IS 105 REYKJAVÍK • Tel: 354-553-2906 • LSO@LSO.is