{"id":11294,"date":"2023-06-01T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?p=11294"},"modified":"2023-06-01T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T22:03:27","slug":"anniversary-40-years-from-the-founding-of-hafnarborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/2023\/06\/01\/anniversary-40-years-from-the-founding-of-hafnarborg\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary &#8211; 40 Years from the Founding of Hafnarborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 40 year ago, June 1st 1083, husband and wife Sverrir Magn\u00fasson and Ingibj\u00f6rg Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir gifted the town of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur with their house at Strandgata 34, including their extensive art collection, establishing Hafnarborg \u2013 the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Centre of Culture and Fine Art.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the couple had run the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Pharmacy in the building that now houses the museum, which was also their home, but together they had amassed a large art collection and their wish was that both the house and the collection would pass onto the community, in the hopes of fostering the cultural landscape of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and providing a space for art exhibitions, concerts and related events.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate this, we invite guests to take a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/evening-at-the-museum-peaking-behind-the-scenes\/\">peak behind the scenes<\/a><\/strong> at the museum tomorrow, Friday evening, as we work on the installation of our new exhibitions and offer insights into the process of making an exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>So feel free to join us for birthday cake, coffee and light drinks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 40 year ago, June 1st 1083, husband and wife Sverrir Magn\u00fasson and Ingibj\u00f6rg Sigurj\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir gifted the town of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur with their house at Strandgata 34, including their extensive art collection, establishing Hafnarborg \u2013 the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Centre of Culture and Fine Art. For decades, the couple had run the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Pharmacy in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11295,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions\/11295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}