#polar museum

[azvolrien]

I do enjoy a model ship.

[worstjourney]

Book signing @ SPRI

The first print run of Worst Journey: Vol.1 has arrived at the Scott Polar Research Institute! They’re usually open Weds-Sat, but this Sunday is Museum Gift Shop Day, so they’re opening specially, and I shall be there from 1-4pm, signing books for whoever wishes to get their book signed. (They also have a selection of very nice Christmas cards, if you are in the market for such a thing, but it’s your job to sign those.)

The Polar Museum, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER – The Happy Place!

Come on down and say hello!

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[davidstanleytravel]

A diorama in the Polar Museum at Tromso, Norway, depicts traditional reindeer hunting.

[jesslovesboats]

I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

You did it Cherry, you got the egg back and made Bilson proud 😭

[arthistoryanimalia]

#InternationalPolarBearDay:

Vase In The Form Of Two #PolarBears Inside An Icy Cave 'Makuzu' ware, Miyagawa Kozan workshop,Yokohama, Japan, c.1900-10 porcelain with decoration in underglaze turquoise & brown, H 22.2 cm x D 15.9 cm Victoria and Albert Museum C.244-1910: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O39341/vase-miyagawa-kozan/ "From the late 19th century, the Makuzu workshop produced porcelain for the Western market. The source of inspiration for this remarkable object was models of polar bears made by the Royal Copenhagen Manufactory. The icy effect was created using experimental glaze techniques."

PS: there is a similar, slightly larger piece in the Khalili Collections:

[no-living-thing-within]

Polar bear brain, pre 1907.

[hiraethy]

a day at the national maritime museum, greenwich ⚓

[saints-who-never-existed]

Because I'm worth it, baby! <3

[astralwhat]

more of those little guys on their nightly adventures at the maritime museum

[stickers in my shops]

[azvolrien]

I know communication in the Arctic wasn't the easiest of tasks before the advent of things like phones and radio, but this seems a very impractical way of trying to get the word out.

[clove-pinks]

I think everyone should know about the Alternate Dimension of polar explorer portraits at the National Galleries of Scotland: all of them slightly different or unique images of familiar names.

William Edward Parry—in a top hat??

Weirdly stiff naive-style John Ross!

Weirdly sexy wild eyebrows John Ross!

Why haven't we seen fur boa McClintock before?

[davidstanleytravel]

The Polar Museum at Tromso, Norway, is housed in a wooden wharf house dating from 1837.

[colonellickburger]

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Polar Bear, 1976

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

"We were the first that ever burst into the silent sea" - John Macallan Swan (1897)

Exposed at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal

Title is a verse from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

The last post for my trip to Bern: polar bear, beech marten, stoat, eurasian kingfisher, and kangaroo

[starlene]

In the Norwegian polar ship museum, I learned that Roald Amundsen wanted to become a polar explorer because as a teenager, he was fascinated with the story of Franklin's lost expedition.

That's. Uh. That's certainly one reason to start polar exploring, I guess.