Bowdoin College has been educating leaders for America and the world since the dawn of the American republic. Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is a highly selective college of approximately 1,750 students of distinction from across America and around the world.
Bowdoin’s curriculum offers a bold blueprint for liberal education designed to inspire you to become a world citizen and leader with acute sensitivity to the social and natural worlds.
Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World,a new exhibition at The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, opens on April 6, 2012 and promises many memorable experiences. Visitors venturing into the exhibit may find themselves looking a polar bear in the eye, learning to pronounce the Inuit names for various animals, marveling at Inuit carvings of beings that seem half animal and half human, or touching a real narwhal tusk.
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This historic blog follows Robert Peary's 1908-09 North Pole expedition from New York to the North Pole and back. The blog will be updated daily over the next fifteen months using various crew members' journals. You can read about what individuals were experiencing on the Roosevelt and while sledging across the Polar Sea exactly one hundred years ago to the day. Read more here.
In collaboration with the Canadian Inuit community of Pond Inlet, the Arctic Museum has released a DVD featuring film footage from Donald MacMillan’s visits to the area in 1948, 1959 and 1954, with a script by Mekai Ootova and her mother, Elisapie Ootova.
Coming Soon – Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection, opening Nov. 18, 2010. Look for more information about this exhibit soon, and read more about this collection here.