Category: News

As in previous years, the museums in Hafnarfjörður are taking part in Museum Night, an event of the Reykjavík City Winter Festival.   There will therefore be plenty going on at our museums in Hafnarfjörður next Friday, and they will be open until midnight. This year the town is also taking part in Swimming Pool Night, which will be held on Saturday, and the Ásvallalaug pool will be open until midnight and […]

On Wednesday, 4th February, the Hafnarfjörður Skateboard Club's facility at Flatahraun will be opened, following months of interior fit-out. The facility has now taken on a fairly final form and a skate shop is set to open there, selling everything related to skateboarding. It will be open every weekday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at weekends. Skateboarding lessons […]

On Wednesday, 4th February, the Hafnarfjörður Skateboard Club's facility at Flatahraun will be opened, following months of interior fit-out. The facility has now taken on a fairly final form and a skate shop is set to open there, selling everything related to skateboarding. It will be open every weekday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at weekends. Skateboarding lessons […]

At the town council meeting currently underway, the affairs of St Joseph's Hospital were discussed. The town council unanimously agreed to instruct the mayor to enter into talks with the government with a view to securing full control of the premises of St Joseph's Hospital. The State Property Directorate advertised the properties at 41 and 44 Suðurgata for sale. No satisfactory offers were received for the properties. In […]

The Family Council of Hafnarfjörður has instructed the mayor to enter into negotiations with the Ministry of Welfare regarding the review of the existing 2010 agreement on the construction of a new care home in the town, in light of changes that have been made to comparable agreements in the intervening time. is from the signing. In the autumn of 2014, at the request of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council, Capacent made a comparison of options for the location of a nursing home […]

A meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council has been called for Wednesday, 4th February at 14:00. Town residents and other interested parties are encouraged to follow the meeting here on the website.

At a meeting of the town council this morning, hotel development in the centre of Hafnarfjörður was discussed. Mayor Haraldur L. Haraldsson says there is a basis for a new hotel in Hafnarfjörður.  „In Hafnarfjörður there are currently two three-star hotels, Hotel Víking and Hotel Hafnarfjörður, with around 350 rooms, and according to information from their owners the hotels' occupancy was very good last year. […]

The concert by the Orchestra of the Music Schools will be held in Langholtskirkja on Saturday, 31st January at 16:00. The percussion soloist with the orchestra is Helgi Þorleiksson, a student at the Garðabær Music School. The conductor is Guðmundur Óli Gunnarsson. The programme includes the following works: A. Marquez: Conga del Fuego Nuevo Áskell Másson: Concert Movement for Snare Drum and Orchestra A. Dvorák: Symphony No. 8 in G major […]

Between 21 October and 17 December 2014, Capacent Gallup conducted a service survey among residents of the country's municipalities.  Hafnarfjörður participated in the survey, and the aim was to assess satisfaction with the services provided by the municipality. The results are currently being presented to the town's committees and councils, and this will be followed by a targeted analysis of where and how it is possible to […]

On Sunday 1 February at 3 pm, Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir will talk to visitors about the exhibition *Development*, which is currently on display at Hafnarborg. *Development* is a self-contained world where the creation, processing, presentation and reception of an artwork take place in the same space. This is a new installation, one of the artist's most extensive works to date, which brings together […]