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Discovery Point — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:17 PM

Interactive journey that tells the story of Discovery from her beginnings in Dundee and Captain Scott's remarkable Antarctic expedition, through her long ocean-going career until her final journey home. Find out about life on board and the essential design features that allowed her to survive the extreme polar conditions.

Marischal Museum — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:22 PM

Although the museum houses exhibitions and collections, most notably from Egyptian and Classical antiquities, Scottish prehistory and numismatics, it also has a collection of non-Western ethnography.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:24 PM

The Museum offers a feast of images and ideas. Come and see world-class collections of Oceanic, Asian, African and native American art - canoes, sculptures, masks, and textiles - and major archaeological discoveries, ranging from the earliest stone tools to British finds from Roman and medieval periods. Recent exhibitions include Arctic Passages, an exploration of the Wordie Arctic Expeditions of 1934 and 1937.

Museum of Mankind (Ethnography Department of the British Museum) — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:25 PM

The collection of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas includes around 350,000 objects, representing the cultures of the indigenous peoples of four continents.

National Maritime Museum (NMM) — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:27 PM

The National Maritime Museum comprises three sites: the Maritime Galleries, the Royal Observatory and the Queen's House. Together these constitute one museum working to illustrate for everyone the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars and their relationship with people.

Natural History Museum — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:28 PM

Apart from a wide range of wonderful exhibitions and collections, there is a six-metre-long whale sculpture, called Stranded, the centrepiece of a contemporary art exhibition displaying specially commissioned art work inspired by the Arctic and climate change.

Pitt Rivers Museum — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:29 PM

Temporary closure of displays until Spring 2009 for Heritage Lottery Fund redevelopment project.

Scott Polar Research Institute - The Polar Museum — by Kris Molle — last modified Nov 15, 2010 12:42 PM

The Scott Polar Research Institute cares for an unrivalled collection of art and artefacts illustrating the history of polar exploration, with particular emphasis on British expeditions of the "Heroic Age". The Institute also has an international reputation for its research on the Arctic and Antarctic, in both the natural and social sciences. The museum has been reopened after a complete renovation. An absolute must !

Stromness Museum — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:32 PM

Exhibits and collections of everything maritime, but also numerous items relating to the "Nor' Wast" - the 19th century links between Orkney and Canada, involving the Hudson's Bay Company. Particularly interesting is material concerning Orcadian Arctic explorer John Rae - who was the first European to learn, from Inuit hunters, the fate of the Franklin Expedition to the North-West passage in 1845.

Hull Maritime Museum (Town Docks Museum) — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 05:34 PM

The city of Hull dominated the Arctic whaling trade in the early nineteenth century and there is an outstanding collection of whaling artefacts. This includes skeletons of the whales themselves, the tools and weapons, as well as personalia, journals and logbooks. There are fine contemporary paintings of the ships and the largest collection of scrimshaw (the folk art of the whaler) on this side of the Atlantic.