Location: Bowdoin / Arctic Museum

Peary-MacMillan
Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center

Home Page featured image

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.

Look for more information soon, and follow our progress on Facebook and Tumblr

Learn more

An Expedition to Cape Sheridan

Story posted June 16, 2011

Follow along on an expediton to the High Arctic.

Read more »

Atlantic Labrador Kayak Takes Shape

Story posted January 24, 2011

thumbnail

Read more »

Visiting the Schooner Bowdoin in Boothbay Harbor

Visiting the Schooner Bowdoin in Boothbay Harbor

The Arctic Museum staff took a day trip to visit the Schooner Bowdoin during Boothbay Harbor's Windjammer Days!

Historic blog

Historic blog

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.

The Way I Picture It

The Way I Picture It

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. 

Buy now at the College Store »

Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection

Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection

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

Where is Admiral Peary?