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This season we started a project to catalogue the books in the library in the whalers’ church at Grytviken. The room holds thousands of books, so the cataloguing process will take some time. We have only catalogued about a tenth of the books this season,

Moving all the large and often weighty objects from the Large Object Store into new storage was a meticulous and challenging project for the South Georgia Museum team. The Large Object Store houses all the big historical museum objects that are too large to fit

The South Georgia Museum was very pleased to receive a donation of a very significant Polar Medal that was awarded to Reginald James, the Endurance Expedition physicist who survived the wreck of Endurance during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917. The Endurance Expedition was led by

Discover the story of South Georgia by using the new search function that makes it easy to search all the historic objects in the South Georgia Museum Collections. The search function on the South Georgia Museum website is user friendly and multi-layered to make it

Announcing the launch of The Whalers’ Memory Bank – a digital platform collecting and sharing important whaling social history. With thanks to funding from the UK National Lottery Heritage Fund, SGHT announced today the start of a major project capturing the human stories of ex-whalers

News coverage of the full reopening of the South Georgia Museum. The Museum is fully open and offering all its services for the first time since its early closure during 2019-20 season!

In a weekly series of Facebook posts, Jerome Viard is looking back on the six months he spent living and working on South Georgia whilst working as a Museum Assistant. Living on the island gives those lucky enough to do so opportunities few will ever

A new website for the South Georgia Museum means that anyone, from anywhere around the world, can “visit” the museum even if they will never step foot on South Georgia. The Museums location in the middle of a mountainous icy sub-Antarctic island means that relatively

Big Ships and Little Ships – Written by Curatorial Intern Finlay Raffle February has been another eventful month for the team down at Grytviken. We started with a visit from the cruise ship Prinsendam which, with over 650 passengers, is the largest vessel to have visited South Georgia