Museum sights in Falkland Islands
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San Carlos
In the 1982 conflict British forces first came ashore at San Carlos settlement, at the south end of San Carlos Water. Until 1983, when it was subdivided and sold, San Carlos was a traditional large sheep station - the isolated 'big house', with its lengthy approach, will give you some idea of how farm owners and managers distanced themselves from laborers.
The settlement boasts a fine stone corral, a relic of the era when gauchos ran cattle on the islands. There is also an excellent museum which covers the islands rural and natural life as well as the Falklands War. Many of the events of that epic period took place just a stone's throw from the museum. Continue through Sa…
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Falkland Islands Museum
This museum contains a professionally presented collection of artifacts from everyday life in the Falklands, plus natural history specimens and a fine collection relating to the islands numerous shipwrecks. Outside displays include the Reclus Hut, an Antarctic research dwelling from the 1950s, rebuilt in Stanley.
Ironically, the Falkland Islands Museum building was constructed for the Argentine representative of LADE (Lineas Aereas del Estado; an airline operated by the Argentine air force), which until 1982 operated air services between Comodoro Rivadavia and Stanley. For several years after the Falklands War it was the residence of the British military commander; after …
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