The predecessor of the Whale Museum in Húsavík was a small exhibition in the hall of the community center on the upper floor of Hótel Húsavík, which opened in 1997. At that time, whale watching tours were scheduled for the third year in a row from Húsavík, and the hotel manager of the local hotel Páll Þór Jónsson got the idea to open an exhibition in the hotel dedicated to whales. . Ásbjörn Björgvinsson was hired to lead the work and moved north with his family in January 1997.
Ásbjörn went to England to the British Museum of Natural History to meet Richard Sabin, the museum's curator, in order to learn how to work with whale bones, which has the largest collection of skeletons in the world. Richard Sabin has been associated with the museum and Húsavík all along the streets ever since. To film, he managed the excavation of whale bones in Keflavík on the Strand in 2001, but that meeting is better understood in one of the museum's exhibition spaces.
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