Good weather brings with it the chance to undertake outdoor work in South Georgia!
From South Georgia Museum
During the 2009/10 season a major maintenance and conservation project started at the cemetery in Grytviken. Many of the graves had started to deteriorate and the area was badly waterlogged. Hugh Marsden undertook a range of work including digging drainage ditches and the repainting of many grave surrounds. Hugh is now continuing this project during the 2010/11 season and is hard at work securing headstones and repairing grave surrounds as well as keeping the site tidy with regular grass cutting.
The Museum gift shop has proved to be very popular with visitors again this season. New products include The South Georgia Museum a booklet written by Bob Burton and Elsa Davidson on the Museum and its collection with additional information on the Church and cemetery. If you would like to know more about products available from the shop please contact: Manager Tony Hall.
Every year the Museum team have to undertake conservation work on the large artefacts displayed in the Museum forecourt in order to protect them from the harsh sub-Antarctic weather. The artefacts include an anchor from barque Louise, a large bone saw, whale canons and try-pots.