North Pole Expedition Centennial Events

North Pole Expedition Centennial Events

Special Exhibits

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum has several special exhibitions on view, both short and long-term, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Peary's 1908-09 expedition.

The Pole at Last!
March 26 through April 24, 2009, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

A special exhibit featuring a key page from Peary’s North Pole diary, as well as other crew members’ journals. Come see a reunion of these and other North Pole objects.

First to the Pole
March 17 through August 28, 2009, Foyer, Hubbard Hall

Photographs examining the controversy over who actually reached the North Pole first by dog team, and featuring other ways people have been “first” to reach the Pole.

Northward Over the Great Ice: Robert E. Peary and the Quest for the North Pole
Through March 2011, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

Hundreds of objects, photographs, sound recordings, and film clips, tell some of the little-known stories behind Peary’s quest to reach the northernmost place on earth.

Reaching for the Pole: An Exhibition Celebrating the Centennial of Peary's North Pole Expedition
January 21 through June 1, 2009, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, 2nd floor

An exhibition of Arctic exploration documents and books housed in the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives.