The Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Art (mudesa), is a new institution, founded at the end of 1998 by the Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education and the City Council of Gardabaer.

Its objective is to collect, exhibit and disseminate information pertaining to modern Icelandic design and crafts, as well as to collect and exhibit choice pieces by the masters of modern design, with particular emphasis on Scandinavian design.

 

Art historian Adalsteinn Ingolfsson has been the mudesa director since September 1999. Members of the museum´s board are: Designer Stefán Snæbjörnsson (chair), interior designer Þórdís Zoëga, Gardabaer councillor Laufey Jóhannsdóttir, and university lecturer Dr. Guðrún Nordal.