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Exhibition: Arctic experience

Nature Geoscience volume 4, page 579 (2011)Cite this article

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At first sight, the exhibition seems unremarkable. Clusters of white wooden columns, some short, some tall, fill a plain-looking room. On exposure to ultraviolet light, the name of a Norwegian glacier emerges on each. The novelty wanes after waving the torch over a couple of the columns.

But step inside a little farther, and the exhibit starts to open up. Deep, muffled sounds groan and creak in the background. Scattered voices talk of freezing fog and whale flesh and buried bones. The light brightens, then dims. And the deceptively simple, column-filled room starts to transform into a labyrinth to be explored.

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High Arctic: Future Visions of a Receding World is at the National Maritime Museum in London. The exhibition is open from 14 July 2011 to 13 January 2012. Entry: £6.

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Armstrong, A. Exhibition: Arctic experience. Nature Geosci 4, 579 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1252

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