The annual four-day event consists of talks by explorers, workshops on storytelling, concerts and art exhibitions.

[2][3] The festival consists of talks and lectures by explorers and scientists, film screenings and competitions, exhibitions of artworks and photography, as well as workshops and live music events.

The first and last day of the festival are reserved for short expeditions to places of geological importance and fossil sites.

Films screened at previous editions include Kon-Tiki, Into the Inferno, Cosmic Birth and Secrets of a Frozen Ocean.

Additionally the Exploration Museum has been visited by astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Loren Acton and Kathy Sullivan.