The F.I.M.N.T. strives to preserve and protect places, buildings and items of historic importance or interest. We work to educate and inform residents and visitors and actively encourage Islanders to enjoy their national heritage. The Trust makes every effort to develop the understanding we have of our history and to increase the amount and quality of information available:

• We have brought archaeologists to the Islands, to explore and map sites of early settlement and development
• We have contacts with museums and organisations all over the world that help to fill in gaps in our knowledge
• We help to maintain and build on cemetery records
• We assist specialists visiting the Falklands on research trips
• We actively gather records and publications of specific interest to the Falklands, in an attempt to build up a good research library

Of course, we also promote the Falkland Islands all over the world and are regularly contacted by researchers or individuals who are curious about our history.