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.

Current exhibition
Face to Face
Portraits by Sigurjón Ólafsson
Rev. Friðrik Friðriksson LSÓ 1121

Concert Tuesday August 25th at 8:30 pm
Soprano, violin and piano
Ucrainian soprano Christina Daletska with violinist Hlíf Sigurjóns­dóttir and pianist Helga Bryndís Magnúsdóttir.

Works by Hugo Wolf, Fritz Kreisler, Reb­ecca Clarke, Vaug­han Will­iams and Voca­lise for voice, violin and piano by Icelandic composer Hjálm­ar Helgi Ragnars­son.
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum • Laugarnestangi 70 • IS 105 REYKJAVÍK • Tel: 354-553-2906 • LSO@LSO.is • ID No 420721-0130