Cultural Heritage
Our cultural heritage initiatives aim to conserve South Georgia’s unique human history encompassing polar exploration, sealing and whaling industries, war and scientific endeavour and use it to educate and inspire visitors.
Current Projects
The Human Footprint
An environmental clean-up of whaling stations with the conservation of heritage associated with the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the rescue of the crew of Endurance.
Artistic Commission
Art celebrating the return of the whale at Grytviken Whaling Station, South Georgia
The Main Store, Grytviken
The opening of the ground floor of the Main Store involved a collaboration
Shackletons Heritage
The Story of Ernest Shackletons Trans-Continental Journey across Antarctica.
Successful Projects Completed by SGHT & Partners
Sealing Archaeology Survey’
Heritage of the 18th and 19th century American and British sealers
Oral History
The South Georgia Museum ex-whalers oral history project