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Sheila Watt-Cloutier Given Honorary Degree by Bowdoin College.
Museum Director Susan Kaplan introduced Sheila Watt-Cloutier during Bowdoin's 204th Commencement. Watt-Cloutier, an environmental activist and champion of Inuit human rights, received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree. Read more.
New Exhibition at The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 expedition, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum opened its new exhibit Northward Over the Great Ice: Robert E. Peary and the Quest for the North Pole on April 18, 2008. Through the use of hundreds of objects, rare photographs and film clips, and historic recordings, the exhibit tells some of the little-known stories behind Peary's quest to reach the North Pole, and the extraordinary efforts of the talented individuals who worked with him to attain that goal.
North Pole Centennial Celebration
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole expedition with special events and exhibits.
Northward: Peary’s 1908-09 Expedition
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.
Latest post: 09-30-1909 – George Wardwell
We arrived here about 9 oclock this morning. Got a pilot from the stern Pilot boat outside, there isn't anyone allowed onboard or anyone from the ship onshore until after the parade which is tomorrow, we leave here at 4 in the morning for 42nd Street N.Y.
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The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center is named for Arctic explorers and Bowdoin College graduates Robert E. Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald B. MacMillan (Class of 1898). The museum collections include Arctic exploration gear, natural history specimens, and art and anthropological material, produced primarily by the Inuit cultures of Labrador and Greenland. The museum also has large holdings of historic and anthropological photographs and motion picture film.
The museum consists of three galleries as well as exhibit space for photographs in the foyer. Two galleries have permanent exhibits on Arctic environments and people, and on Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole Expedition. Exhibits in the third gallery and in the foyer change on a regular basis. Through the Arctic Studies Center, research focuses on the prehistory, history, anthropology, and environment of northern peoples and Arctic exploration.