the home of the first british embassy was höfði (best known as the location for the 1986 reykjavík summit meeting of ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev). in the 1950s the embassy was moved to its current location on laufásvegur street. in 1968, the british government bought laufásvegur 31 and the old farmhouse which was there was donated to the reykjavik museum and moved to the heritage site at árbæjarsafn.