Akureyri Art Museum

The Center for Visual Arts was launched in January 2012 when The Akureyri Art Museum and The Akureyri Cultural Center were merged together. The Center is divided into three distinctly separate venues: The Akureyri Art Museum and the multipurpose facilities of Ketilhús (Kettle House) and Deiglan (Melting Pot), which are all located  on the same street in the  heart of Akureyri, affectionally known as Listagilið (Art Canyon). The Museum opened its galleries on August 29th  1993 and is the oldest of those three establishments. For  the past two decades it has been the flagship of the Art Canyon and has played a prominent role in the cultural life of Akureyri as the first institution outside the capital of Reykjavík to concentrate solely on visual arts.