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Polar Journal AG Team
The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world’s polar regions. This week we look at an exhibition on the crest line between art and science by an Icelandic artist in Greenland, a new study tracing 800,000 years of climate-ocean interaction in the Southern Ocean and a Netflix series that takes place in an Inuit community.
Dr. Michael Wenger
The Swiss ALPS Museum is opening a new, unique exhibition on Friday featuring the massive changes taking place in Greenland and how the people there are dealing with them.
Several institutions in Switzerland's capital Bern are sending out a strong signal for the Arctic and inviting visitors to various events and exhibitions, some of which will be on display for up to two years.
Mirjana Binggeli
With two articles published last month in the same review, anthropologists remind us of the importance of participative collaboration with Arctic Indigenous populations, as well as exchanges with the public.
Julia Hager
The Norwegian town of Bodø in the province of Nordland once thrived on the export of stockfish and is now the first town in the Arctic to be awarded the title of "European Capital of Culture".
This Sunday takes place the closing of the exhibition “Sedna. Myth and Change in the Arctic” at NONAM in Zurich. The opportunity to take stock with Martha Cerny about the exhibition.
Lapland is warming, threatening species and causing rapid and partly irreversible environmental changes.
Heiner Kubny
In paintings and sculptures made of stone and bone, artists from Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Chukotka bring the Arctic to life, along with its myths and stories.
Today, the special exhibition about the Arctic expedition opens in Lucerne, Switzerland.
The Natural History Museum of South Georgia opens its doors to the public virtually due to COVID and lack of visitors.
