[2][3] The main exhibition room features photographs and artifacts from the Apollo astronaut training program near Húsavík in 1965 and 1967.

The exhibition was opened 50 years after US president John F. Kennedy first announced the goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of 1969.

Among the items on display are portraits of some of the most known Viking explorers, including Leif Ericson, Erik the Red, Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir and Garðar Svavarsson.

[10] The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

He and four others arrived at the pole in December 1911, five weeks ahead of a British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition.