This new museum opened in May 2011, covers the history of motorcycles in Iceland the last 100 years. Motorcycles from all over, objects and artefacts relating to the history of motorcycles in Iceland in a stunning 800 square meter building, that was especially designed for the museum.

The Center for Visual Arts was launched in January 2012 when The Akureyri Art Museum and The Cultural Center were merged. The Center is divided into three distinctly separate venues: The Akureyri Art Museum and the multipurpose facilities of Ketilhús (Kettle House) and Deiglan (Melting Pot) all located on the same street in the heart of Akureyri, affectionally known as Listagil (Art Canyon).

The Museum opened its galleries on August 29th 1993 and is the oldest of those three establishments. For the past two decades it has been the flagship of the Art Canyon and has played a prominent role in the cultural life of Akureyri as the first institution outside Reykjaví­k to concentrate solely on visual arts.

The old rectory at Laufas is under the administration of the Akureyri Museum. The oldest part of the farm was built in 1840 and in the years 1866-1870, Rev. Bjorn Halldorsson had the rectory enlarged and old part renovated.

The old rectory at Laufas is considered to be the prototype of the Icelandic architecture (many gables side by side), but much larger than most other such complexes. Usually, between 20 and 30 people lived at Laufas because many farmhands were needed to reap the benefits of the farm, such as the haymaking, the fishing in the river and the collection of eiderdown along the coastline. The last priest to live in the old buildings moved to a new rectory, nearby in 1936. The old rectory has not been occupied since, the interior and equipment shown are things found in Icelandic homes around the turn of the 19th century. The following rectory (build in 1936) is now days used for the catering of the visitors, restrooms and souvenir shop.

Friðbjarnarhús now houses an exhibition of 20th century toys owned by Guðbjörg Ringsted. Among other things one can see dozens of dolls and toy cars. On the upper floor is the old meeting room of the Independent Order of Good Templars, which donated the house to the Municipal Council of Akureyri in 2009.

The house Sigurhæðir accommodates the Memorial Museum of the Reverend Matthí­as Jochumsson (1835-1920) who had the house built in 1903. Here office rooms are rented out, equipped with all the latest technology and intended for the use of scholars and poets engaged in creative writing. The library of Dr. Steingrí­mur J. Thorsteinsson has just been moved into the building and provides a good basis for such literary activities. Under the auspices of the Memorial Foundation, courses and lectures are arranged and special literary exhibitions organised as well as programmes whose aim is to present to the public the special cultural heritage of Icelandic literature in its spoken and written form.

The Aviation Museum in Akureyri, founded on 1 May 1999 and formally opened 24 June 2000, the story of aviation in Iceland is traced right up to the present time. Numerous photographs and detailed text present a realistic and interesting account of pilots in their everyday activities. And where pictures and imagination end, concrete reality takes over. The museum contains many types of aircraft; for example, a plane of the same kind as the first aircraft in the possession of Loftleiðir Airline as well as Iceland's oldest ambulance aeroplane and the first glider built in Akureyri 1937.