Gerðarsafn is a progressive museum with a focus on contemporary art, which is located in the heart of Kópavogur. The gallery offers visitors temporary exhibitions of works by Icelandic and foreign contemporary artists, as well as displays its own collection.

The Museum was built in memory of the artist Gerður Helgadóttir (1928-1975) and opened in 1994. The sculptor was a pioneer of three-dimensional abstract art and glass techniques in Iceland. The Museum's collection includes more than 1,400 works by Gerður and a large collection of works by twentieth-century artists: Barbara Árnason, Magnús Árnason and Valgerður Brim.

Helgadóttir's relatives gave the city almost fifteen hundred of her works after she died in 1975. Then it was decided to build a museum in honor of the artist, which will store and display her works. Gerður was a versatile person who worked not only with sculptures, but also with stained glass and mosaics.

Nowadays, numerous cultural centers hold events in the Museum: lunch concerts, book reviews, readings and excursions. Studio Gerður is an open space for learning, where everyone can study and create art. School groups, families and individual visitors have the opportunity to relax and create their own works here. There are often family master classes organized by the program "Family Saturday", implemented by the houses of culture of Kópavogur

Gerðarsafn offers excursions and museum education for school groups of all levels, for small and large individual groups, including working visits and tourists. For example, in 2019, it hosted an exhibition of films, sound and video works by contemporary Icelandic and foreign artists called " Oh, how quiet!". The focus of the exhibition developed around the relationship between music and film in contemporary art. The main idea of the exhibition was a deep and balanced calmness characteristic of the name: the artists created sound installations that represent a space for experiencing the music that we can see.