Skip to main content
Home
  • What's on
  • Exhibitions
  • Collection
    • Museum database
    • What we collect
  • Education
    • School visits
  • Events
    • Press releases
  • Information
    • About the design museum
    • Employees
    • Contact
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Exhibitions

Allar
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Older
14/12/17 - 01/05/18
ÐYSLEXTWHERE

The product designer Hanna Jónsdóttir will be working here for the next few weeks on the project ÐYSLEXTWHERE. Her collaborator is Ingrid Brandth from Norway but they have been...

14/12/17 - 28/02/18
The Icelandic Wool Sweater

The Icelandic wool sweater has developed through the centuries from a sturdy item of work clothing, used primarily in difficult outdoor jobs on sea and land, to being a...

27/10/17 - 04/02/18
Icelandic Record Covers

Design has been part of the publication of records from the very beginning but it wasn’t until the mid 20th century, when Drangey employee Tage Ammendrup started the record...

20/06/17 - 19/11/17
Nordic Angan - Fragrance library

Þær Sonja Bent og Elín Hrund Þorgeirsdóttir hafa komið sér upp sýningar- og vinnuaðstöðu í anddyri Hönnunarsafnsins. Í sumar munu þær vinna að rannsóknarverkefni sem felur í...

18/03/17 - 08/10/17
Chair

Chair is a new exhibition that will open at the Museum of Design and Applied Art as part of DesignMarch 2017. The exhibition features a number of chairs by Icelandic...

19/11/16 - 05/03/17
On paper

An exhibition of a selection of drawings and sketches from the museum collection and from private collections will open on Saturday, November 19th. The pieces displayed provide...

12/06/15 - 28/02/17
Keepers

Museum collections are collections. They are made up by a number of collected objects and sources that have some meaning to the museum and usually more than one. But how are...

Visit the museum
Opening hours
  • All days: 12:00 → 17:00
    Mondays: Closed

Location
  • Garðatorg 1
    210 Garðabær, Iceland

  • View location on map

Recent News
  • Workshop for the whole family
  • The home is a slow-moving event at the Design Museum of Iceland
  • Drawing Shadows – workshop
  • Imaginary home for families
  • Design workshop - The world at home - Thursday 16. February from 13-15
  • Design workshop - The world at home - Tuesday 14. February from 13 - 15
  • Opening -The Design Museum as a home
  • Opening
Latest Exhibitions
  • At Home in The Design Museum
  • Presence - New sweaters by textile designer Ýrúrarí
  • Ceramic designer in residency
  • The best book design from all over the world
  • Dieter Roth: graphic design
  • M A G E - Master milliners in residency
  • BATHING CULTURE
  • VIRTUAL WATERS
Useful Links
  • Iceland Design Center
  • MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
  • Röhsska [Gothenburg]
  • Design museum [London]
  • Designmuseo [Helsinki]
  • Designmuseum [Copenhagen]
  • Trapholt hönnunarsafn [Kolding]
  • Nationalmuseet for design [Oslo]
Museum of Design and Applied Art
  • Gardatorg 1
    210 Gardabaer
    Iceland

  • View location on map

Contact
  • Phone: (+354) 512 1525

  • Phone: (+354) 512 1526

  • honnunarsafn@honnunarsafn.is

© 2014 / Hönnunarsafn Íslands. Powered by Drupal / Developed by Lýðveldið