Reykjavik Street Art Walking Tour

Explore Reykjavík street art on a guided walking tour through hidden backstreets with an expert photography-focused guide.

Getting started

Meet your professional guide for an introduction to Reykjavík street art and a short overview of the route. After a quick overview of safety and walking pace, you set off on foot into the city streets. The tour follows regular sidewalks and streets, so wear comfortable walking shoes and be prepared for a relaxed, urban walk.

What to expect

Reykjavík street art backstreets and stories

This guided city walk focuses on Reykjavík’s street art scene as a living expression of the city’s culture and identity. You leave the main sightseeing routes behind and move through everyday neighborhoods where large and small works of urban art appear around each corner.

Features

• A guided tour of Reykjavík street art shapes the entire experience, linking individual murals and tags into a broader look at how the city’s walls, alleys, and building façades become a canvas for local voices.
• Your expert guide, with a passion for street art and photography, helps you read composition, color, and message, making the route especially engaging if you enjoy taking photos.
• Visits to hidden alleys and backstreets reveal evolving pieces that most visitors miss, including small passages and corners where new work regularly replaces old layers of paint.
• Walks through mural-filled neighborhoods show how large-scale artworks sit within local streets, so you can see how residents live alongside this changing urban gallery.
• Insights into underground urban art culture give you context about how these murals and interventions appear in Reykjavík, and how creativity thrives in the everyday spaces you are walking through.