As part of the Connecting Coastal Communities project, with which the Whale Museum is currently working in collaboration New Bedford Whaling Museum, the project participants received a visit from New Bedford last Sunday. 6 students and 2 employees of the museum in New Bedford took the museum and the students home and it can be said that the trip was eventful.
The group at the Pearl
The Húsvíski group headed south on Sunday, April 17, to receive the group from New Bedford, where they visited the Whales of Iceland whale show, the American Embassy and looked at other significant places such as Hallgrímskirkja, Perln and Harp.
Statuettes
When they got home, they were guided around the town, visited the Norðurþing office, where they were welcomed with gifts and good conversation, Sif welcomed them in the Museum and gave them a good guide about the history of Þingeyjar County.
A warm welcome at the office of Norðurþing
That evening, a kind of family-cultural evening was held, where the parents of the Húsvíska students cooked delicious dishes in the Icelandic way, such as Icelandic meat soup, rye bread with stew, flatbread with trout and ham, and donuts and pancakes with coffee. The families of the students and the museum staff gathered there, but in addition, the village manager Kristján Þór Magnússon stopped by and had a good time with the group.
The group from New Bedford with municipal manager Kristján Þór
On Wednesday, the group presented the project to the students and staff of FSH, went whale watching and visited the Fjúk Arts Center, where Marina Rees is working hard on a new exhibition to be installed in the Whale Museum. Then the Icelandic swimming water was tested against a good reputation and the group held a presentation on the project at an open house in the Whale Museum that evening.
Students present the project in FSH
After a successful whale watching in beautiful spring weather
Marina shows the group the preparation of her exhibit at the Whale Museum
Thursday was spent at Mýtvatn, where we saw lambs, at Grjótagjá, Víti and the famous Jarðbáð, and in the evening the Icelandic students invited the foreigners to visit an Icelandic home.
Part of the group in Jarböðunur at Mývatn
It's been an eventful week that will be remembered for a long time. The two groups will see each other again a little over a month later, when the group from Húsavík makes it to New Bedford.
