The Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum was founded in 1984 by the artist's widow Birgitta Spur ex­hibit­ing who had his studio and their home con­vert­ed to a mus­eum build­ing, open­ed for publ­ic in 1988.

The mus­eum is dedi­cat­ed to  Sigur­jón Ólafs­sons's sculp­tur­es - alone or in dia­logue with other art­ists. It also hous­es a vast amount of bio­graph­ical mat­erial and is the re­search cent­er of Sigur­jón Ólafs­son's work. In ad­di­tion to hous­ing dif­fer­ent ex­hib­itions the museum spons­ors vari­ous cult­ural pro­grams.