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The tanks
Hot water tanks from 1939 stand under the museum's glass dome
In 1939 a single hot water tank was built on Öskjuhlíð hill. At 61 metres above sea level it gave enough pressure to supply water anywhere in Reykjavík. Five more tanks rose beside it in the next two decades.
The dome
In 1991 six tanks became the base of a glass dome building
The tanks were rebuilt in the late eighties, and in 1991 they became the base of Perlan. Four are still in use, one hosts an ice cave, and one has been turned into a planetarium.
The ice cave
An ice cave 100 metres long is built inside one tank
The ice cave is built from around 400 tons of ice, snow and ash. Perlan also has a ten-metre-high replica of the Látrabjarg cliff, a planetarium and an interactive glacier exhibit.
The pearl
As mayor, Davíð Oddsson pushed the project that gave the city a pearl
The project was largely at the behest of Davíð Oddsson, then mayor of Reykjavík. The building is shaped and named after a pearl, and the structural engineer Jón Búi Guðlaugsson designed it.
Day 2, midday
It comes after National Museum of Iceland. Then Blue Lagoon.
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