South Georgia Museum
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South Georgia Museum is situated in Grytviken, 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 residence for the manager of the Grytviken whaling base and his family, until the base closed in 1964. South Georgia Museum was established in 1992 as a specialized 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 South Atlantic War.
Nowadays the museum is a popular tourist venue, visited by cruise ship or yacht tourists. For a number of years Tim and Pauline Carr used to serve as museum curators, living onboard their yacht Curlew moored in the Grytviken port.
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- Tim and Pauline Carr. Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998.
