Arctic Museum Releasing Donald MacMillan’s Historic Films of Greenland
Filmed in the 1920s, this portrayal of the Inuit performing day-to-day activities like hunting, sewing, traveling by dog sled, repairing tools and caring for children, makes these motion pictures unique.
View ArticleUnraveling a 1,000-Year-Old Anthropological Conundrum: A Race to Save the...
Archaeologist Genny LeMoine touched down in northwest Greenland on a mission. She was in a race against time to uncover artifacts before they are lost forever to a combination of factors resulting from...
View ArticleArctic Scholars Kaplan and LeMoine Share Concerns Over Whistleblower’s...
In a letter to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Arctic scholars Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine share unique insight and why they feel Joel Clement's departure from the Department of...
View ArticleArctic Museum Celebrates Its 50th with Major Inuit Art Gift
The Tolls describe their donation as “fifty Inuit graphics to celebrate the museum’s fifty years,” marking the Arctic Museum’s half century of operation.
View ArticleFollow the Ill-Fated 1913 Crocker Land Expedition Online
A century after their return from four years in the Arctic, the journals and photographs from the 1913-1917 Crocker Land Expedition are now available through a new web portal as a result of a grant...
View ArticleYankee Magazine Praises ‘Local Treasure’ Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
Writing in Yankee magazine, Joe Bills described stepping "into the frigid world of Robert Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald MacMillan (Class of 1898), two of the explorers most responsible for opening...
View ArticleWCSH Explores Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
A TV crew from Portland recently checked out some of the more than 45,000 artifacts in the 50-year-old Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum — admiring the stuffed polar bears, seal-intestine clothing,...
View ArticleDramatic Photographs from an 1869 Arctic Art Expedition on View
Beautiful images taken on an unusual nineteenth-century Arctic expedition are the focus of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s new exhibit, Solely for the Purposes of Art: Images from William...
View ArticleMaine Siblings Recall Grandfather’s Role in MacMillan’s Crocker Land Expedition
In 1913, Maine country doctor Harrison J. Hunt, of the Class of 1902, answered a newspaper ad, which read: "Doctor for Crocker Land Expedition needed. Sailing in six weeks."
View ArticleArctic Museum Celebrates Black History Month with Matthew Henson Button
In honor of Black History Month, the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is featuring Matthew A. Henson, the famous African American Arctic explorer, on its February button of the month.
View ArticleContemporary Alaskan-Siberian Artist and Activist to Lecture at Bowdoin
Susie Silook, one of Alaska’s best known contemporary artists, will deliver a lecture entitled “Yupik and Iñupiat Art and Activism in Contemporary Alaska” on Thursday, March 8, at 7:00 pm in Kresge...
View Article‘Enduring Connections: Contemporary Alaskan Yup’ik and Iñupiat Art’ Opening...
Contemporary Alaskan art has its roots in both indigenous cultural traditions and the dramatic changes Alaskan society has experienced beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.
View Article‘Blossoming Tundra’ on View in Photography Show at Arctic Museum
You may think of the Arctic as a barren wasteland, but plant life abounds. As soon as the snow melts flowers begin to bloom, taking advantage of round-the-clock sunlight. In 1947 botanist and...
View ArticleNow Showing: ‘The Heath Hen’ and Other Early Ornithological Films of Alfred...
Rare films documenting ornithological research done in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Bowdoin professor of biology Alfred Otto Gross, including previously unknown footage of the last surviving heath...
View ArticleArts and Culture: 2018 Fall Preview
To complement the Bowdoin Arts and Culture Fall 2018 Calendar of Events, here's a sample of some of the treats on offer in the galleries, museums, concert halls, libraries, theaters, and and lecture...
View ArticleCaught in the Middle: The Tragic Life of Minik Wallace
Born in Greenland, raised in New York, Minik Wallace had much to relearn when he returned to Greenland as a young man. Eventually he returned to the United States, only to die in the 1918 influenza...
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