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Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum

22 Oct 20 – 21 Feb 21, Open daily, 10am - 5:30pm

The British Museum's latest exhibition looks at the resilient cultures of the Arctic and how climate change threatens both their past and their future

By CW Contributor on 21/10/2020

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Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum. Umiaq and north wind during spring whaling by Kiliii Yuyan
Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum. Umiaq and north wind during spring whaling by Kiliii Yuyan
Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum Emily Spicer
The British Museum has opened its first major exhibition exploring the diverse range of communities that live in the Arctic. Arctic: Culture and Climate draws on the museum's extensive collection of polar artefacts, as well as major commissions and loans. Some of the objects on display date back 28,000 years. The most ancient of these treasures were prised from the thawing permafrost in Siberia, but the warming climate threatens to destroy a great many others still buried in the ground.


The Arctic is a place that really plays on the imagination. Plunged into darkness in the winter and transformed into the land of the midnight sun in the summer, this region of ice and of polar bears, of northern lights and reindeer herders, is a magical and perilous place, a place that 2 million people call home. But, scientists predict that the Arctic will be ice-free in just 80 years, a terrifying statistic that has serious ramifications for all of us, but the cultural and social impact on Arctic communities will be immense. The British Museum's exhibition will look at how indigenous peoples, from Scandinavia to Greenland, will be effected and how they have coped with dramatic changes in weather in the past.



Left: Woman’s hat or ládjogahpir, Sámi, Norway. Wool, horn, cotton and silk, pre-1919. © Trustees of the British Museum.. Right: Child’s all-in-one suit made of caribou fur. Inuit, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1980s. © Trustees of the British Museum.


In order to survive, Arctic peoples put everything to use; nothing goes to waste. This exhibition includes a bag made from fish skin, a sled made from narwhal and caribou bone and an Evenki spirit mask, carved from a 17th century Russian Orthodox icon. There is also a selection of artworks commissioned especially for this exhibition, including an Inuksuk (an imposing monument of stacked stones) and an installation by the art collective Embassy of Imagination, who will present traditional clothing crafted from Japanese paper.


This exhibition hopes to highlight the human impact of climate change in those regions most vulnerable to its effects, while also bringing to life the diversity and resilience of the communities who call the Arctic their home.


What Arctic: Culture and Climate, British Museum
Where British Museum, Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3DG | MAP
Nearest tube Holborn (underground)
When 22 Oct 20 – 21 Feb 21, Open daily, 10am - 5:30pm
Price £16+
Website Click here for more information



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