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Maine Arctic Trail Map

Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum

  • Boothbay
    • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
    • Boothbay Harbor
    • Hodgdon Yachts
    • Owls Head Transportation Museum
  • Brunswick
    • Bowdoin College
    • Freeport Historical Society, Freeport
    • Maine Maritime Museum
    • Peary’s Eagle Island
    • Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum
    • White Cedar Inn
  • Bucksport
    • Bucksport Historical Society
    • Buck Memorial Library
    • Cranberry Isle Historical Society and Islesford Historical Museum
    • Maine Maritime Academy
    • Verona Island
  • Fryeburg
    • Admiral Peary Inn Bed & Breakfast
    • Jockey Cap Rock
    • Poland Spring Preservation Society
  • Interior Maine
    • Maine State Museum
    • LC Bates Museum
  • Orono
    • Climate Change Institute
    • Hudson Museum
    • Jesup Memorial Library
    • Quoddy Head State Park
  • Portland
    • Eimskip
    • Home & Away Art Gallery
    • Maine Historical Society
    • Maine Women Writers Collection
    • Osher Map Library
    • Portland Company

The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick

The only Arctic-focused museum in the United States, the museum was established in honor of Bowdoin alumni and Arctic explorers Robert E. Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald B. MacMillan (Class of 1898). Its collections are built around material gathered by MacMillan during his long career as an explorer and educator, as well as collections made by alumni, faculty, and students who explored the Arctic as far back as 1860. The Museum presents changing exhibits on different aspects of Arctic life, past and present, drawing from collections that include ethnographic and historic artifacts, contemporary arts and crafts from across the North American Arctic, as well as over 20,000 images and motion picture films. A permanent exhibit explores Peary’s North Pole Expedition of 1908-1909. The museum is located in Hubbard Hall (built and named after General Thomas H. Hubbard, one of the financiers of Peary’s expeditions) on the Bowdoin College campus, and is open to the public daily except Mondays and holidays, free of charge.

Address: Hubbard Hall, 9500 College Station, Brunswick ME 04011

Website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/


Image courtesy to the Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Brunswick.

Bowdoin College Hubbard Hall and Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
Bowdoin College Hubbard Hall and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

 

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Acknowledgement

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center, Bowdoin College, is pleased to acknowledge the Oak Foundation for generously funding the development, design, and production of this project, which was originally produced as a paper map. Additional support was provided by the Arctic Museum’s Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment. Production of the website was supported by a Gibbons Summer Research Fellowship.

We wish to thank four Bowdoin College students for their assistance. Lydia Woodward ’16 compiled many of the entries appearing in this brochure. Aidan French ’18 and William Wise ’18 did additional research on some of the Maine-Arctic connections. Xin Jiang ’20 prepared this website and did additional research.

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