Reykjavik; Wednesday, 05 April, 2006

First stop of the morning was the museum of Modern Art, which was showing an exhibition of broken bits of metal (see all previous comments regarding modern art!). From there it is a short bus ride (Ok 10 minute walk, but I was feeling lazy) to the National museum.

Recently refurbished the museum tells the history of the Island from its settlement in the 10th century through to the modern day. The museum is set out in a chronological order and has all the information in English as well as Icelandic. After a stop for lunch, we headed out the opposite side of the city to the Asmundur Sveinsson sculpture museum.

The museum is located in the uniquely designed house that he left to the nation after his death and contains many of his works, as well as more modern sculpture in the grounds.

From there it was back into town and on to the Reykjavik photography museum before grabbing an early dinner.

The reason for the early dinner was that we were supposed to be going on a Northern lights tour that evening. Unfortunately, a hour before we were supposed to be picked up we were called to say that the cloud was too heavy and they had to postpone the tour till tomorrow.