News & Blogs
The museum team has been posting blogs on the museum website since 2007
Read them all here.
Endurance Expedition Polar Medal donated to the South Georgia Museum
The South Georgia Museum was very pleased to receive a donation of a very significant Polar Medal that was awarded...
Read More
Any journey to South Georgia is a bit of an epic, and this year proved to be no different!
Any journey to South Georgia is a bit of an epic, and this year proved to be no different! Setting...
Read More
New way to search the SG Museum Collection
Discover the story of South Georgia by using the new search function that makes it easy to search all the...
Read More
Capturing the Human Stories of Whaling
Announcing the launch of The Whalers’ Memory Bank - a digital platform collecting and sharing important whaling social history. With...
Read More
March 2023 Museum Blog – On South Georgia, time has a habit of getting away from you
South Georgia Museum Blog - March 2023 On South Georgia, time has a habit of getting away from you –...
Read More
February 2023 Museum Blog – BUSYNESS, BIRTHDAYS AND BUGS!
February Blog by Helen Balfour (Museum Assistant) BUSYNESS, BIRTHDAYS AND BUGS! When reading all of the previous blogs that...
Read More
January 2023 Museum Blog – Happy New Year!
January 2023 Museum Blog - Happy New Year! Happy New Year from the SGHT Gritvyken team! January has seen fewer...
Read More
December 2022 Museum Christmas Blog
December 2022 Museum Christmas Blog by Aoife McKenna, Curatorial Assistant December already! It certainly crept up on us down in...
Read More
November 2022 Museum Blog: Our first full month as a whole team
November was our first full month as a whole team and we have already attended weddings together, witnessed births and...
Read More
October 2022 Museum Blog: October started with the first elephant seal pup being born on the track to Grytviken
Top Image: Male elephant seal using a pipe on the track as a pillow October started with the first elephant...
Read More
News coverage on South Georgia Museum full reopening
News coverage of the full reopening of the South Georgia Museum. The Museum is fully open and offering all its...
Read More
September 2022: An early start to the museum season!
September 2022: An early start to the museum season! Travelling to such a remote island involves a lot of planning...
Read More
Enjoy a more intimate view of South Georgia.
In a weekly series of Facebook posts, Jerome Viard is looking back on the six months he spent living and...
Read More
South Georgia Museum launches a new website
A new website for the South Georgia Museum means that anyone, from anywhere around the world, can “visit” the museum...
Read More
March 2020: Leaving South Georgia
LEAVING SOUTH GEORGIA March 2020 It was a different end to the season than anticipated; the Covid19 pandemic affecting even...
Read More