Gerdarsafn Kopavogur Art Museum

Gerarsafn – Kópavogur Art Museum is situated in a beautiful building in the center of Kópavogur, a town immediately on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The museum was built in memory of Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975), a pioneer of modern sculpture and stained glass in Iceland. The museum collection holds over fourteen hundred works by this talented artist and a large collection of works by the 20th century artists Barbara Árnason, Magnús Á. Árnason and Valgerður Briem among other contemporary works. One of the most important private collections of Icelandic art from the last century, collected by Þorvaldur Guðmundsson and his wife Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, is in the custody of the museum. It includes works by all major artists of the first half of the last century.