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 his move to Mt Pleasant it became the new home of the local museum.