On June 1, Tryggvasafn's summer exhibition will be opened in the Neskaupstaður’s Museum House. The title of the exhibition is “Litagleði” (Joy of colors) and visitors must admit that it lives up to its name. The exhibition includes 40 works from the years 1996-2017....

On June 1st Tryggvasafn's summer exhibition was opened at the Neskaupstaður Museum House. The exhibition is called “Stemmning” (e. mood) referring to the special mood many people experience while viewing works by Tryggvi Ólafsson. The museum will be open every day...

In 2017 Tryggvi Ólafsson was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Dannebrog.  On that occasion he was interviewed by the Icelandic National Television (RÚV) where he talked about his life and art.  The interview...

Tryggvasafn recently registered the web domain: www.tryggvasafn.is. This event was made possible by a grant from the East Iceland Development Fund.  Visitors to the museum´s website can access data in both Icelandic and English. Information about the artist...

If he had not died on 3 January 2019, Tryggvi Ólafsson, painter, would have turned 80 on 1 June 2020. To celebrate this date, the Tryggvi Ólafsson Art Collection at the Neskaupstaður Museum House set up a summer exhibition entitled Úrval (Selected Works) which was...