Stories from South Georgia with Helen Balfour

Join Helen Balfour, who has been working with us over the past few months as a museum collections assistant, to learn all about her time in South Georgia before she embarks on another summer in the south! Helen spent last year working for the charity South Georgia Heritage Trust at their museum in Grytviken, a former whaling station. With a collection of images from her season spent at the museum, Helen will explain all about her experiences there, provide information about the station and delve deeper into what day to day life looked like at the most remote museum in the world!  

Helen has spent the last 5 years studying for both her honours and master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Her main interest for both dissertations was based on heritage and museum studies, with a focus on Shetland and the NE of Scotland. She has also worked for Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museum as well as working with the South Georgia Heritage Trust on their current Whalers’ Memory Bank Project. She followed in both her grandfathers’ footsteps by making the journey, as they were both employed in the island’s whaling trade in the 1950s.

There will be an informal question and answer session at the end of this event.  

Date: Thursday 5th October
Time: 7pm (finish time around 8:30pm)
Location: Auditorium, Shetland Museum & Archives
Ticket price: £5.00