{"id":14315,"date":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/tvaer-nyjar-syningar-opnadar-a-afmaelisdegi-baejarins\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:03:04","slug":"two-new-exhibitions-opened-on-the-towns-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/tvaer-nyjar-syningar-opnadar-a-afmaelisdegi-baejarins\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new exhibitions opened on the town's birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The summer at the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Museum of Local History begins with an exhibition on cod-heads and the occupation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The summer opening at the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum begins on the town's 112th birthday, 1 June, with the opening of two new exhibitions. A themed exhibition about grey seals opens in the Packhouse, and a new occupation exhibition has been set up on Strandst\u00edg. Admission to all the museums of the Folk Museum is free, and all five of its buildings are open from 11 am to 5 pm every day throughout the summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Culture for all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Packhouse usually has three exhibitions running at once: a permanent exhibition on the town's history, a toy exhibition, and a themed exhibition. A new themed exhibition, which has opened in the Packhouse's foyer, focuses on the town's monkfish and small-boat fishing industries. For centuries, the people of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur went to sea in rowing boats, but at the beginning of the 20th century, the mechanisation of small-boat fishing began, developing until it reached a peak in the town during the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition seeks to shed light on this history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stranstigurinn.jpg\" alt=\"The Strand Star\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1772px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1772\/1404;\" \/><sup>The exhibition has been set up. <em>Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur during the occupation years 1940-1945<\/em> on the Strand<\/sup>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the occupation of Iceland during the Second World War, the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Museum of Local History has opened the photography exhibition \u201eHafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur during the Occupation Years 1940\u20131945\u201c. The exhibition has been set up on Strandst\u00edgur along the harbour, from Drafnarslipp out to Herj\u00f3lfsgata, where around 50 photographs shed light on this period in the town's history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/museum.hafnarfjordur.is\/\">All information about the collections of the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Museum of Local History can be found here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumari\u00f0 \u00e1 Bygg\u00f0asafni Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar hefst me\u00f0 Gr\u00e1sleppukarla- og hern\u00e1mss\u00fdningu. Sumaropnun hefst \u00e1 Bygg\u00f0asafni Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar \u00e1 112 \u00e1ra afm\u00e6lisdegi b\u00e6jarins 1.j\u00fan\u00ed me\u00f0 opnun \u00e1 tveimur n\u00fdjum s\u00fdningum. \u00deemas\u00fdning um gr\u00e1sleppukarla opnar \u00ed Pakkh\u00fasi og n\u00fd hern\u00e1mss\u00fdning hefur veri\u00f0 sett upp \u00e1 Strandst\u00edg. A\u00f0gangur a\u00f0 \u00f6llum s\u00f6fnum Bygg\u00f0asafns er \u00f3keypis og eru \u00f6ll fimm h\u00fas safnsins opin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14315"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}