Explore the Settlement Exhibition
Aðalstræti, Iceland
The Settlement Exhibition is built around the remains of a tenth-century longhouse discovered beneath Aðalstræti in 2001. Preserving the archaeology where it was found gives the visit an immediacy that a conventional display cannot quite reproduce. Interpretation explains the lives of the earliest inhabitants, while the connected exhibition at Aðalstræti 10 follows Reykjavík’s later development. Choose it for a focused introduction to the city’s history, from a small settlement to the streets you walk through today.