Twelve teenagers curate an exhibition on climate change
The plan was this: invite twelve young people into the museum, fill their brains with information about the Polar Regions and museum displays and then ask them to produce the framework for a temporary exhibition about climate change. In a week. There is a lot of buzz around ‘co-curation’ projects at the moment. The idea is, by bringing in an…
Museum Speed Dating… with Ernest Shackleton
The Polar Museum is asking the public to vote for their favourite object relating to Ernest Shackleton in a new film project. Ernest Shackleton was an eminent polar explorer who voyaged to the Antarctic four times, leading three of his own expeditions. On two of those expeditions he made ‘furthest South’ records on his attempts on the South Pole. He…