The Arctic Museum Galleries in the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies are now OPEN!
Hours:
Tuesday thru Saturday
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Call (207) 725-3416 or email pmam@tianyangcity.com for more information.
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is hosting a Roundtable Discussion with Inuit Photographers!
Friday, September 29 @ 4:00 p.m.
BRIAN ADAMS & JENNIE WILLIAMS
Friday, September 29, 2023
4:00 PM
Smith Auditorium, Sills Hall
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
During the week of October 16, 2023 Piita Irniq will erect an Inuksuk near the Center for Arctic Studies on the campus of Bowdoin College.
An Inuksuk is a stone structure shaped in the likeness of a person (inuk). It might be a single upright boulder or stones stacked to resemble a person with outstretched arms. Ancestors of present-day Inuit erected Inuksuit on the land to serve as wayfinding structures.
Piita Irniq, an educator, artist, former politician, and advocate for Inuit and their way of life, is well known for Inuksuit he has built. They have been displayed throughout Canada, and in various countries including in France, Argentina, Mongolia, and the United States.
Join us as Irniq discusses Inuit as a hunting society, their move from iglu to microwave in less than 60 years, and the impact of residential schools on contemporary communities. He will explain how Inuit are reclaiming, retrieving and reinvigorating their culture.
FREE and Open to the Public.
In the spring of 2023, the Arctic Museum will open inaugural exhibitions in our new home, the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies on the Bowdoin College campus. One of the new temporary exhibits planned for this new facility will feature contemporary Inuit photography.
Museums bring collections to life by telling their stories. Often, donors share personal memories of objects. Recollections of community members where the works were made and used add additional meanings, and new research can unveil entirely new stories. Here we trace the growth of the Arctic Museum's collection through planning and serendipity and also highlight stories from the collection, with appreciation of the museum's many donors and collaborators.
From the sledge that carried Peary to the North Pole in 1909 to a SmartBUOY that tells contemporary Inuit travelers if the sea ice is safe, this exhibit examines life in the Arctic historically and today.
