Regína Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir

Nonnahús and Nonni - the Honorary Citizen of Akureyri the Capital City of North Iceland

The Nonnahús museum is my favourite museum in Akureyri and a hidden gem in North Iceland's capital city. In this travel blog, I am going to tell you about Nonni and show you inside his former childhood home. I have such fond memories of visiting this museum as a child, and I greet Nonni every time I travel up north to Akureyri. Top photo: the lovely Nonnahús house Nonnahús as seen from above Nonnahús was the childhood home of Jón Stefán Sveinsson (1857-1944), who was called Nonni, but Icelandic men with the name Jón are often called Nonni or Jonni. Nonni wrote famous children's books