Nonni's House ( ) is a museum in the

Akureyri Akureyri (, ) is a town in northern Iceland, the country's fifth most populous Municipalities of Iceland, municipality (under the official name of Akureyrarbær , 'town of Akureyri') and the largest outside the Capital Region (Iceland), Capital R ...

municipality in

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

. The small wooden house, built around 1850, is one of the oldest houses in Akureyri. It was the home of the well known children's author and

Jesuit The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

priest

Jón Sveinsson Jón Stefán Sveinsson, SJ, better known as Nonni (16 November 1857 – 16 October 1944), was an Icelandic children's writer and member of the Society of Jesus. He left Iceland in 1870 for France, where he converted to Catholicism. His ch ...

; also known as "Nonni". The museum was started in 1957 by the Zonta Club but they gave it to the Akureyri municipality in 2008.

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