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Scott Polar Research Institute, home to: Polar research | The Polar Museum | The Polar Library | The Thomas H. Manning Archive | The SPRI Picture Library
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Scott Polar Research Institute @scottpolar.bsky.social · Aug 26
Our upcoming exhibition, 'Through Ice & Fire', opens on 12 September at the Polar Museum. A fusion of contemporary art and cutting-edge Antarctic research, the exhibition connects geology and our industrial past with the science of glaciers, ice sheets and the climate.
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The 'Through Ice & Fire' logo of the outline of Antarctica filled with abstract brushstrokes in blue, purple and orange. The text to the right reads: "'Through Ice & Fire' Rowan Huntley exploring the science of Dr Joanne Johnson" with the Polar Museum and British Antarctic Survey listed below.
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Last week, the inaugural Micro Arctic Climates MACS conference at SPRI provided an opportunity to explore how Arctic communities can utilise scientific and cultural data to better understand the changes that may occur in their regions. 
Learn more about the conference here: en.uit.no/project/macs...
Micro Arctic Climates Conference 2025 | UiT
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September 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A fun morning with artist Rowan Huntley recording🎙️for our upcoming #sciart exhibition at @scottpolar.bsky.social "Through Ice & Fire". 👇
www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib...

Opens 12 September in Cambridge, UK!

@bas.ac.uk #Antarctica 🧪❄️🥼🎨
A woman dressed in blue jeans, blue T-shirt and pink cardigan smiling and looking a piece of paper she is holding. She wears a headset and is seated in front of several colourful maps pasted on the wall behind. A camera sits on a table in the foreground of the photograph. Behind is a blurred view of a library with stacks of bookshelves and 3 people (in green, blue and grey clothes) sitting at a table. One is drinking from a mug.
September 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Come and see our library display curated by two of our Museum volunteers, Dora & Freya. The display explores the development of Victorian Alpine exploration, the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn, and the history of wood engravings, illustrated through the work of Edward Whymper.
September 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Check out this BBC article for a few quotes from SPRI staff alongside exciting footage of the Terra Nova shipwreck.
Terra Nova: Captain Scott’s polar ship filmed on the sea floor
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📢Super-excited to announce the opening on 12 Sept of a new art-science 🎨🔬exhibition at @scottpolar.bsky.social in Cambridge, UK! My @bas.ac.uk work interpreted by artist Rowan Huntley.

Free to visit, suitable for all ages, showing for 9 months 👍

More info: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib...

🧪❄️🥼🎨
Logo for exhibition. On the left is a colourful painted silhouette of Antarctica. On the right is the exhibition title "Through Ice & Fire" and names and logos of the artist and scientist, plus The Polar Museum and British Antarctic Survey. A lady dressed in a navy work suit smiling at the camera. She is holding a lump of ice with metal pieces embedded within it. Various tools are on a table in front of her. A geologist dressed in a red jacket and black trousers, wearing sunglasses and a knitted hat, kneels on a brownish yellow mountainside. She is holding a yellow hammer in her right hand and has her left hand on a pale grey rock. In the background is lots of snow.
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
scottpolar.bsky.social
Our upcoming exhibition, 'Through Ice & Fire', opens on 12 September at the Polar Museum. A fusion of contemporary art and cutting-edge Antarctic research, the exhibition connects geology and our industrial past with the science of glaciers, ice sheets and the climate.
@geologicaljo.bsky.social
The 'Through Ice & Fire' logo of the outline of Antarctica filled with abstract brushstrokes in blue, purple and orange. The text to the right reads: "'Through Ice & Fire' Rowan Huntley exploring the science of Dr Joanne Johnson" with the Polar Museum and British Antarctic Survey listed below.
August 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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!
August 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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
July 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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!
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.
June 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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.
A multicoloured aurora (southern lights) light up the sky in this illustration by Sarah Airriess.
June 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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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...
"Painting the Poles" logo - white paintbrush-style text on dark blue background "The Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute Artists in Residence"
March 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I just discovered myself in this @bas.ac.uk podcast! All about women working in #Antarctica, in my case remote geological fieldwork and leaving family behind. #geology

Some great stories here 👇 🧪❄️🥼 🇦🇶

www.bas.ac.uk/media/icewor...
Iceworld Podcast - British Antarctic Survey
Out now, an International Women’s Day special episode ‘Women at the poles – with Jane Francis, Jo Johnson, Katy Rumm, Vicky Auld, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner’ – a look …
www.bas.ac.uk
March 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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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
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.
March 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM