The 11th edition of the Explorers Festival will take place in Húsavík from November 12 to 16, celebrating the spirit of exploration through film, science, and storytelling. Hosted by the Exploration Museum, this year’s festival will showcase 22 films from 17 countries, uniting filmmakers, scientists, and adventurers from around …
It began, as many great adventures do, with a small clue left without an explanation. In the summer of 2015, a couple stepped quietly through the door of my Exploration Museum in Húsavík. They paid for two tickets, wandered the exhibits, and without a word, left a red folder …
This summer, three filmmakers with strong ties to Húsavík journeyed to the North Pole to retrace a little-known 1985 expedition led by legendary explorers Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary. Orly Orlyson, founder of The Exploration Museum in Húsavík, was joined by musician and filmmaker Rafnar Orri Gunnarsson and …
Astronaut Kathy Sullivan has been awarded the Leif Erikson award, by the Exploration Museum in Húsavík. This is the 8th time the museum hosts the awards. In 1984 she became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk, at age 33 on October 11, 1984, on the first of …
Húsavík’s Agnes Árnadottir was awarded the Wista Norway Leadership Award by the Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg yesterday. Agnes is the Co-founder and CEO of Brim Explorer, a company that provides ocean excursions without noise or pollution on board silent hybrid-electric ships in northern Norway. In her speech, …
HÚSAVÍK, Iceland – The sixth annual Leif Erikson Exploration Awards, hosted by the Exploration Museum, recognized Canadian explorer George Kourounis, and Americans Ulyana Horodyskyj and Jeff Blumenfeld this weekend. Also recognized was Scottish private space company Skyrora that launched their Skylark rocket from Langanes near Húsavík in northern Iceland …
The Exploration Museum has opened its newest exhibition for the summer, titled “Fearless Females”. This brand new exhibit has been under construction for the last few weeks, and had its grand opening on the first of May. The newest exhibition features the stories of six women of exploration, spanning …
The Exploration Museum in Húsavík has awarded three scientists and explorers with the Leif Erikson award. The awards were presented this weekend at the 2018 Explorers Festival. British volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer was awarded the main award, the Leif Erikson Exploration Award, for his extraordinary contribution to the exploration of …
As the first woman to climb all the 14 eight-thousander peaks, Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban has been awarded the 2017 Leif Erikson Exploration Award during the Explorers Festival in Húsavík this weekend. The award was presented to her by Icelandic mountaineer Vilborg Arna Gissurardóttir on behalf of the Scientific …
Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, who in 1972 became the youngest man to walk on the Moon, broke ground for a new wing of the Exploration Museum today. Charlie Duke spent 3 days on the Moon, performing scientific experiments, as well as roaming over the lunar surface on the …
