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South Georgia Museum

SIQQ 1ZZ Grytviken, Great Britain (UK) (South Georgia)
Address
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Heritage- or City Museum
  • Navy / Watercraft
  • Radios (Broadcast receivers)
  • Food and beverage production
  • Arms
  • Movie recording and playback

Opening times
Options for a visit to South Georgia are varied. For most it would be on a cruise ship. It is possible to charter a yacht from the Falkland Islands or south America or indeed to organize an expedition with its own support vessel.

Admission
Status from 02/2018
 We don't know the fees.
Contact
Tel.:+500-28 200   
Homepage
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Location / Directions
S54.280000° W36.507500°S54°16.80000' W36°30.45000'S54°16'48.0000" W36°30'27.0000"
Grytviken is a settlement on the island of South Georgia, part of a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic,

The South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, near the administrative centre of the UK overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The museum occupies the renovated and converted manager's villa built in 1916, and used as a residence for the manager of the Grytviken whaling base and his family, until the base closed in 1964.

Some example model pages for sets you can see there:

N: Tandberg Radio; Oslo Huldra 4 (1950-54)
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
History

The settlement at Grytviken was established on 16 November 1904 by the Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen, as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca (Argentine Fishing Company). It was phenomenally successful, with 195 whales taken in the first season alone. The whalers used every part of the animals – the blubber, meat, bones and viscera were rendered to extract the oil, and the bones and meat were turned into fertilizer and fodder. Elephant seals were also hunted for their blubber.

Current situation

Along with the surrounding area, the station has been declared an Area of Special Tourist Interest (ASTI).

Grytviken is a popular stop for cruise ships visiting Antarctica, and tourists usually land to visit Shackleton's grave. The South Georgia Museum is housed in the manager's house of the former whaling station, and is open during the summer tourist season.

The station's church is the only building which retains its original purpose, and is still used occasionally for services.

South Georgia Museum

The South Georgia Museum was established in 1991 as a specialised whaling museum, subsequently expanding its expositions to include all aspects of the discovery of the island, sealing industry, maritime and natural history, as well as the 1982 Falklands war.

The museum has become a popular tourist venue, visited by cruise ship or yacht tourists. For several years Tim and Pauline Carr served as museum curators, living on board their yacht Curlew moored in the Grytviken port. The museum is now managed by the South Georgia Heritage Trust.
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