
Past Exhibits
Closed in 2024


Closed in 2022

Fun and Games in the Arctic
, Hubbard Hall foyer
Kajak!
, Arctic Museum main galleries
A Resounding Beat: Music in the Inuit World
, Arctic Museum main galleries
Portraits of Place: Arctic and Antarctica
, Hubbard Hall foyer
Summer in the Arctic 2022
, Arctic Museum main galleries
Crocker Land Expedition: Christmas at Etah, 1913
, Virtual Exhibition
Matthew Alexander Henson
, Virtual Exhibition
Blossoming Tundra: The Photography of Rutherford Platt
, Virtual Exhibition
Dressing It Up: Beadwork in Northern Communities
, Virtual Exhibition
Caught in the Middle: the Tragic Life of Minik Wallace
, Virtual Exhibition
Arctic Spring
, Virtual Exhibition
Bowdoin Women in the Arctic
, Virtual Exhibition
Happy 100th Birthday Schooner Bowdoin!
, Virtual Exhibition
Qamutit: Greenland Sled Portraits
, Virtual ExhibitionClosed in 2021

Colorful Arctic: Donald B. MacMillan’s Lantern Slides
, Hubbard Hall foyerClosed in 2020

Virtual Pop-Up Museum!
, Virtual ExhibitionClosed in 2019

Matthew Alexander Henson: First African-American at the North Pole
, Hubbard Hall foyer
Bowdoin Students Explore the Arctic
, Hubbard Hall foyer
Dogs at Work in the North
, Virtual Exhibition
Caught in the Middle: the Tragic Life of Minik Wallace
, Hubbard Hall foyerClosed in 2018

Enduring Connections: Contemporary Alaskan Yup'ik and Iñupiat Art
, Arctic Museum main galleries
Blossoming Tundra: The Photography of Rutherford Platt
, Hubbard Hall foyer
Closed in 2017

Melting Away: Arctic Cultural Heritage at Risk
, Virtual ExhibitionClosed in 2010

The North Pole Controversy: A Joking Matter
, Arctic Museum main galleriesOlder
- 2017. Glancing Back: Acquisitions from the Museum's First Years
- 2016. Through the Lens: Arctic Biodiversity
- 2016. Power of Flight: Visions of Birds in Inuit Art
- 2016. Defying the Ice: Shipwreck and Rescue of the Karluk
- 2016. Ice Navigator: Captain Bob Bartlett's Northern Adventures
- 2015. MacMillan's Last Voyage
- 2015. Dressing It Up: Beadwork in Northern Communities
- 2015. Don Quixote of the Arctic: Inuit Artists Address Contemporary Issues
- 2015. Cold War in a Cold Climate
- 2014. A Bit of a Personal Universe: Travels in the Maritime Far Northeast
- 2014. Faces of Greenland
- 2014. Early Inuit Art: Recent Acquisitions
- 2014. Northwest of the Known Arctic Lands: MacMillan’s Search for Crocker Land, 1914
- 2014. A Glimmer on the Polar Sea: The Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1917
- 2014. Cape Dorset and Beyond: Inuit Art from the Marcia and Robert Ellis Collection
- 2013. Peary/Kirkeby: Views of Peary Land
- 2013. Spirits of Land, Air, and Water: Antler Carvings from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection
- 2013. Scrimshaw: Selections from the Peter C. Barnard Collection
- 2013. Off to a Rocky Start: The Crocker Land Expedition, 1913
- 2013. Pop-up Museum: Your Favorite Things
- 2012. Robert E. Peary and His Northern World
- 2012. In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky
- 2012. Community and Tradition in the Modern World: Iñupiat Hunters as Photographed by Bill Hess
- 2012. Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World
- 2010. Near the Pole with Peary: Harry Whitney in Greenland, 1908-09
- 2010. Imagination Takes Shape: Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection
- 2009. Chief Engineer George A. Wardwell: A Bucksport Man in the Far North
- 2008. Northward Over the Great Ice: Robert E. Peary and the Quest for the North Pole
- 2008. Forging Ahead: SS Roosevelt Encounters the Polar Sea
- 2007. This Extraordinary Paradise: Living in Northwest Greenland
- 2005. Treasures and Trinkets: Collecting Culture in the North
- 2005. Northern Mission: Sir Wilfred Grenfell in Labrador
- 2005. Beautiful Utility: A Look at Inuit Crafts
- 2004. Building the Peary Monument
- 2004. Northern Connections: Postcards from The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collection
- 2004. Freezing the Moment: Photographing the Arctic
- 2003. The Cold Front: Greenland and America in World War II
- 2003. Schooner Bowdoin Summers
- 2002. In Cod We Trust: Labrador's Early Twentieth Century Cod Fishery
- 2002. Ancient Ice, Cool Science: Climate Change in the North
- 2001. Northern Cinema: Early Film of the Far North
- 2001. “I will only tell what I know”: Them Days, Stories of Early Labrador
- 2001. Four Years in the White North: Donald B. MacMillan’s Crocker Land Lecture
- 2001. Down the Labrador: MacMillan in the Big Land
- 2000. Working Through the Ice: The Bowdoin and The Effie M. Morrissey
- 2000. Dickeys and Skinny-whoppers: Inuit and European Clothing in Labrador
- 1999. Peary and the Inuit: Perspectives On Interactions
- 1999. Facing the Future
- 1998. Greenland Summer