Last week, the staff of the Whale Museum in Húsavík went abroad to Massachusetts, USA, on a study trip sponsored by the Museum Fund. The Whaling Museum was one of 21 recognized museums that received a continuing education grant for the 2017 operating year. The purpose of the trip was to visit the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, but the two museums have had a successful partnership for about two years.
The staff of the Whale Museum were well received and had a meeting with the manager of the museum, as well as a number of other employees and managers of the museum, and it can be said that the trip was educational in all respects.
We spent the night in Boston, which is over an hour away from New Bedford, and there the staff also received a warm welcome from the former US ambassador and great friend of the museum, Robert C. Barber. Barber took the guests to the various places in and around Boston that are connected to Iceland, as well as offering good education about the area.
