The Polar Museum has been closed this week for essential mantainance. However, we're very pleased to announce that we are now able to open a day earlier than planned on Saturday 9th August!
08.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
There's still places left for Arctic artist Lesley Burr's 'Tea & Talk' at the Polar Museum, on Wednesday 9th July (11am to 12 noon). Book here now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tea-talk-with-lesley-burr-2019-arctic-residency-to-baffin-island-tickets-1419148644799?msockid=2b26feb975a168810e3eedad74996924
03.07.2025 09:49 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Polar Museum from the outside.
A painting of the Antarctic on the ceiling of the entrance hall of the Polar Museum.
The Scott Polar Research Institute’s library.
An informative notice inside a museum toilet.
Spent a great day at @scottpolar.bsky.social and the Polar Museum today, thanks to Albert van Wijngaarden and Jean de Pomereu: excellent discussions, a great library, and a wonderful little museum!
25.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A multicoloured aurora (southern lights) light up the sky in this illustration by Sarah Airriess.
This June & always, SPRI aims to create an environment where everyone is valued & accepted. It's a diverse, inclusive, welcoming space for everybody.
This illustration depicts the Southern Lights in all its multicoloured glory. This natural phenomenon inspires great polar pride.
16.06.2025 10:27 — 👍 45 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
"Painting the Poles" logo - white paintbrush-style text on dark blue background
"The Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute Artists in Residence"
Calling all art lovers - our newest temporary exhibition, Painting the Poles, is now open to view in the Temporary Gallery space at the Polar Museum, Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm.
Read more about each of the eight artists here: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib...
17.03.2025 15:56 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Cambridge Archives and Collections Fair Poster
12 - 4 pm, 13 March 2025
"Drop in to this free event to find out about the archival resources you can access in Cambridge for your dissertation or research from the specialists who care for them. What will you discover?"
Handwritten notes on paper and in an open book in front of a souvenir programme of a theatre show titled SOUTH.
The Polar Archives will be one of over 30 archives, museums and libraries taking part in the 2025 Archives & Collections Fair.
Thinking of using the archives in your research? Come along and meet the specialists who care for them!
📆13 March, 12 - 4pm
📌Student Services Centre, Cambridge
10.03.2025 14:32 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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PhD candidate at Cambridge University, Scott Polar Research Institute. Political geographer interested in Arctic, EU, critical geopolitics but also in coffee, knitting, reading, mountains, running, skiing.
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