Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum

Announcement

The Arctic Museum Galleries in Hubbard Hall are Now CLOSED.

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will open in the new John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies in late Spring 2023.

Call (207) 725-3416 or email pmam@bowdoin.edu for more information.

Explore the Arctic!

Arctic Museum Exhibits

Fun and Games in the Arctic

September 27, 2022 - December 31, 2022, Hubbard Hall foyer

Communities all over the world love games, and the people of the Arctic, and the Arctic Museum staff, are no exceptions.

Black Lives Matter:
The Arctic Museum’s
Plan for Moving Forward

In support of the Black Lives Matter Movement, the staff of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum has been reflecting upon our institutional history and what we can do moving forward to better promote Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) voices, and to actively combat the white supremacy imbedded in our society.

We acknowledge that we are currently an all-white permanent staff at a predominantly white institution of higher education. The idea of the modern museum itself, as originally conceived, is a racist, colonial enterprise, and our particular museum is named for and owes its origin to two individuals who operated within colonial and racist frameworks.

For a long time, Arctic Museum staff have understood that museums are not neutral, and we have prioritized anticolonial practices and programming. Nevertheless, we recognize the reality that much more is needed.