Faculty Use of Museum Resources in their Teaching

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center

Faculty Use of Museum Resources in their Teaching

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum invites Bowdoin classes from all disciplines to utilize the museum as a resource. With an extensive collection of over 41,000 objects, including photographs, films, ethnographic and historic objects, and contemporary Inuit art, the Arctic Museum can enrich the study of a variety of subjects.

During the Fall 2018 semester, eight classes worked with the Arctic Museum’s materials, accessing over two hundred works from the collection. Art History students sharpened their visual analysis skills through close observation of contemporary Inuit prints. Anthropology and Government classes used the exhibit Threads of Change as a foundation for robust discussions on critical contemporary Arctic issues. Hispanic Studies students wrote Spanish language compositions inspired by their favorite objects on exhibit.

At the Arctic Museum we are passionate about developing creative, object-based experiences tailored to specific course themes. If you would like to incorporate the Arctic Museum into your class, or if you are interested in brainstorming ways to use the museum’s holdings, please contact Genny LeMoine, the museum’s curator, at glemoine@bowdoin.edu. We are happy to support your learning goals through exhibit tours and critiques, close studies of selected objects, as well as your own ideas of ways to approach and use the museum’s resources.