Memorials of endurance and adventure : exhibiting British polar exploration, 1819 – c.1939

• Main Author: Murray, Katie
• Other Authors: Gunn, Ann V., University of St Andrews. School of Art History
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of St Andrews 2017
• Subjects: Museum; Exhibition; Arctic; Antarctic; Polar; Panorama; Inuit; Human display; Human exhibit; Franklin; Relic; Erebus; Terror; Diorama; Exploration; Explorers; 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition; Expedition; Shackleton; Robert Falcon Scott; William Speirs Bruce; Southern Cross; Discovery; Nimrod; Scotia; John Ross; James Clark Ross; William Parry; Henry Aston Barker; Robert Barker; Robert Burford; Henry Courtney Selous; David Roberts; E. Lambert; Danson; Philip Phillips; Thomas Grieve; William Telbin; John J.Story; Madame Tussauds; Waxwork; Display; George Nares; Edward Wilson; William Burn Murdoch; Poles; Frank Debenham; Scott Polar Research Institute; Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory; Herbert Ponting; Debenham; Murdoch; Nares; Parry; Antarc*; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11087

Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holder Over eighty polar-themed exhibitions were held in Britain between 1819 and the 1930s, a time of intense exploration of both the Arctic and Antarctic. These varied from panoramas and human exhibits to...