News & Blogs

February Blog by Helen Balfour (Museum Assistant) BUSYNESS, BIRTHDAYS AND BUGS!   When reading all of the previous blogs that...

January 2023 Museum Blog - Happy New Year! Happy New Year from the SGHT Gritvyken team! January has seen fewer...

December 2022 Museum Christmas Blog by Aoife McKenna, Curatorial Assistant December already! It certainly crept up on us down in...

November was our first full month as a whole team and we have already attended weddings together, witnessed births and...

Top Image: Male elephant seal using a pipe on the track as a pillow October started with the first elephant...

News coverage of the full reopening of the South Georgia Museum. The Museum is fully open and offering all its...

September 2022: An early start to the museum season! Travelling to such a remote island involves a lot of planning...

In a weekly series of Facebook posts, Jerome Viard is looking back on the six months he spent living and...

A new website for the South Georgia Museum means that anyone, from anywhere around the world, can “visit” the museum...

LEAVING SOUTH GEORGIA March 2020 It was a different end to the season than anticipated; the Covid19 pandemic affecting even...

CURATOR JAYNE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER TEA February 2020 When you see South Georgia for the first time, all...

MUSEUM ASSISTANT HANNAH EDUCATES YOU IN THE LOCAL LINGO January 2020 As a language teacher in ‘real life’, I’ve become...

MUSEUM ASSISTANT JEROME ON SNOOZY ELLIES AND ILL TEMPERED FUR SEALS December 2019 December is the month when fur seal...

TAKING PRIDE IN OUR WORK November 2019 Caitlin, the Fundraising Assistant, reports on the November activites at the South Georgia...

A CRISP START TO THE SEASON October 2019 L to R: Caitlin, Pat, Jayne and Hannah ready to raise the...