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Iceland — 26, day 13 — museums

We also went to the Reykjavik Art Museum, which has as many as three buildings. We visited two of them, and got our fill of art up to our eyeballs. The impression we got was positive, often the installations are interactive or have technological/scientific elements, just the way I like it.

A spacious concrete room with columns and a ceiling, illuminated by lamps. In the center, there is a translucent textile partition with several decorative elements, including openings and a piece of dark burgundy fabric.
A knitted house, no joke, a whole army of grannies put in the work
A kitchen installation made entirely of textiles in shades of gray, beige, and white. All elements, including cabinets, a countertop, a stove, and a sink, have a soft, stitched texture.
Knitted house is so knitted

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Iceland — 25, day 12 — the capital

Having gotten a proper night's sleep, the next morning we headed back to the center. We dropped by the arthouse cinema Bio Paradis, they were just running a Cool Cuts series — Scandinavian cinema classics. The cinema is very stylishly furnished with retro items like vinyl record players, old advertising posters, and newspaper clippings, and there was even a genuine horn-rimmed-glasses-wearing hipster standing behind the counter, listening to Stereolab on vinyl. I asked him what was playing, and he immediately handed me the record to look at. After that, though, it was unclear what else we could chat about, so the conversation died down. I wanted to say that he and the cinema looked very organic together, and that Stereolab fit perfectly sound-wise, but I felt too shy — it sounded way too cliché.

Black and white movie poster for 'Bíó Paradís' featuring a red star and a close-up of a woman with voluminous hair and expressive makeup touching her cheek. The text includes slogans in Icelandic: 'Heimili kvikmyndanna' and 'Farðu aftur í bíó í fyrsta sinn'.

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