Two young women will been invited to Húsavík this November as a part of a Beverly Turner Lynds Memorial Scholarship to take part in astronaut-style geology training, following in the footsteps of the Apollo astronauts who prepared for their lunar missions in Iceland during the 1960s. The program is part …
Staff from the Húsavík Whale Museum traveled this week to examine a humpback whale that washed ashore near Áshól, just south of Grenivík. The 10-meter-long female was first spotted stuck on a shoal before drifting closer to land at high tide. Local farmer and guesthouse operator Anna Bára Bergvinsdóttir …
The Húsavík Eurovision Exhibition will host a special screening today at 14:00 of the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, one of the most iconic editions in the competition’s history. Visitors will be able to relive the night that ABBA won with “Waterloo,” a performance that went on to launch one …
The first part of the Eurovision Song Contest Exhibition in Húsavík opened to the public today. Two other exhibits will open over the next 5 months. The exhibit features Iceland in the song contest. Eurovision legend Greta Salomé performed at the opening with the Húsavík girls choir, that came …
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 …
The Húsavík Whale Museum was reopened earlier this week after being closed most of this winter for renovation and installation of a new exhibit. The highlight of the reopening celebration was the unveiling of the newest exhibit, a Blue Whale skeleton. In 2010, the Blue Whale was found beached …
Two new exhibitions opened at Húsavík Museum last weekend. In the art gallery on the top floor is an exhibition by local artist Ragna Hermannsdóttir from Bárðardalur, born in 1924. Ragna, who studied art in Iceland and in the Netherlands, gave most of her works to the Museum in …
