Húsavík, Iceland – November 19, 2024 – The Exploration Museum in Húsavík, Iceland, is proud to announce the establishment of the Beverly Turner Lynds Memorial Scholarship, a new program to empower and support young women...
The Explorers Festival will take place in Húsavík from November 6 to 10, 2024. This is the 10th edition of the festival and the third year that we have a Film Festival as part...
The latest issue of Expedition News, published by Blumenfeld & Associates, celebrates its 30th anniversary with stories of remarkable expeditions and achievements: For full stories and more inspiring expeditions, read the latest issue of...
The Explorers Festival in Húsavík, Iceland, celebrates its 10th edition from November 6-10, 2024, with the theme EARTHRISE, honoring the impact of space exploration on Earth. Highlights include the GeoSpace student training program, a...
In a celestial celebration of human ingenuity and exploration, the 9th Leif Erikson Awards have crowned their laureates, underscoring remarkable contributions to space exploration and scientific achievement. Húsavík’s Exploration Museum annually bestows these accolades...
Aviatrix, adventurer, around the world pilot and a great friend of the Exploration Museum, Amelia Rose Earhart, has joined the board of the Exploration Museum. She joins the board of our new US based...
American Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Australian around the world sailor Jessica Watson and British exploration historian Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones have been awarded the Leif Erikson Exploration Awards by The Exploration Museum. The museum...
Fifty years ago this month, a group of Apollo astronauts arrived in Iceland for a week of geology training. A second field trip was made in 1967. For two weeks in July 2015, astronauts...
A talk by Moonwalker and Geologist Harrison Schmitt at Reykjavík University – July 9, 2015 at 5.00 pm. Hosted by The Exploration Museum. The exposure of Apollo Astronauts to the geology of Iceland contributed...
On April 6, 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mt. Everest, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, Steve Fossett, the first to fly a balloon around the world, Patrick...
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The 10th edition of the Explorers Festival will take place in Húsavík from November 6 to 10, 2024
