Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
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- The Roosevelt: A Model of Strength
- The North Pole
- The Permanent Collection
- This Extraordinary Paradise: Living in Northwest Greenland
Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North
- Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North
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- Paleoclimate on the World Wide Web
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Past Exhibits
- Arctic Cinema: Early Film in the Far North
- Them Days, A Magazine of Labrador History
- Working Through the Ice: The Bowdoin and the Effie M. Morrissey
- Four Years in the White North: Donald B. MacMillan's Crocker Land Lecture
- In Cod We Trust: Labrador's Early Twentieth Century Cod Fishery
- The Coldfront: Greenland and America in World War II
- Freezing the Moment: Photographing the Arctic
- Treasures and Trinkets: Collecting Culture in the North
- Northern Mission: Sir Wilfred Grenfell in Labrador
The Roosevelt: A Model of Strength
"The Roosevelt fought like a gladiator, turning, twisting, straining with all her force, smashing her full weight against the heavy floes whenever we could get room for a rush, and rearing upon them like a steeplechaser taking a fence." Robert E. Peary 1907
The S.S. Roosevelt was built on Verona Island, Maine, in 1904-5. Designed for Arctic exploration, the Roosevelt carried Robert E. Peary and his crews to the edge of the frozen polar sea in 1905 and 1908.
The Arctic Museum's current exhibit "The Roosevelt: A Model of Strength" is an admiralty model of the Roosevelt that was painstakingly crafted by master builder Richard "Frenchy" DeVynck. DeVynck based the model on his new research about the ship's history.
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Anne and Robert Blair, Class of 1960, and Sandy and Robert Koslowsky, in commissioning the Roosevelt model. The model is housed in a state of the art climate-controlled case which is a gift of the Kane Lodge Foundation, Inc. of New York.