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Kvennasögusafn (The Women’s History Archives) will host a workshop for women of foreign origin in Iceland on Saturday, November 7th, 10:00-12:30. *** The history of mankind is exactly that; very focused on the “man” in “mankind”. This is especially prevalent when it comes to immigrant women, who often are unseen, unheard and unmentioned in the…

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Kvennasogusafn will be closed from 1 July until Agust 4th. Happy summer!

Read more : Summer Holiday from 1 July until 4 Agust

Please note that Kvennasogsuafns’ 50th anniversary exhibition that was open at the National and University Library in Iceland from October 17th 2025 until March 9th 2026 is available online in both English and Icelandiic: https://50ar.kvennasogusafn.is/ Read the exhibition text and view the digitized versions of the exhibited items, all from Kvennasogusafns’ collection, on this dedicated website: https://50ar.kvennasogusafn.is/.

Read more : Online digital exhibition from Kvennasogusafns’ 50th anniversary

Happy easter break! The Archives are closed 1-6 April. — Photo from the archival collection of Guðrún Pálmadóttir (1917–2003), taken in Isafjordur, Iceland.

Read more : Easter break 1-6 April

The exhibition is in its final days and the last exhibition day will be on 9 March 2026. The exhibition is open and free access for all visitors at the National and University Library, Arngrimsgata 3 Reykjavik, at it’s opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8:15-22, Friday 8:15-19, Saturday 10-17 and Sunday 11-17. There will be…

Read more : Final days of the exhibition, guided tours

A WOMEN’S HISTORY pub-quiz! In the Stúdentakjallarinn bar at 8 pm, Monday the 9th of March. Kamilla Einarsdóttir and Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir will survey how much you know about important women, exciting secrets, and great events! Shake the dust off your women’s history facts to win truly historical prizes! The 9th of March is also…

Read more : A WOMEN’S HISTORY pub-quiz 9th of March!

175 Years in the making Iceland ranks among global leaders in gender equality. The journey spans from equal inheritance rights in 1850 and suffrage in 1915 to the Women’s Strike in 1975 and the world’s first democratically elected woman president in 1980. Bold efforts and collective action by the women’s movement shaped Iceland’s path to…

Read more : New website on Gender Equality in Iceland

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Women’s History Archives, a celebration will be held on December 5th, Anna Sigurðardóttir’s birthday. There will be a program of short lectures on a variety of topics relating both to the Archives and to women’s history. Light refreshments will be served at the end. We look forward…

Read more : Anniversary Celebration 5th of December : The Women’s History Archives at a Crossroad

The 50th anniversary exhibition of the Women’s History Archives opened at the National Library on October 17, 2025. The exhibition features 18 women from the Women’s History Archives’s collection who worked in a variety of jobs in the 20th century. One of them was Ingibjörg Guðlaugsdóttir (1887–1971), farmhand and doctor’s assistant. Her collection is the…

Read more : November highlight of the month

WE ARE MANY is an exhibition of the Women’s History Archives collection, held to mark the archive’s 50th anniversary. The theme of the exhibition is women’s associations, work and strikes. It will open at the National and University Library on Friday, October 17, 2025, from 3-5 p.m. Detailed schedule to be announced soon. The Women’s…

Read more : The 50th anniversary exhibition of Kvennasögusafn will open on October 17, 2025