Bowdoin College Museum Tours
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Tours of Bowdoin College museums are organized by Midcoast Senior College for its members. All tours are free of charge. You may select either a morning or afternoon tour. Sign-up is required and space is limited. Click HERE to go to the sign-up page. In addition to the tour, MSC has organized for a Zoom talk with a person associated with one of the museums or curator of an exhibit. The Zoom talk is also free for MSC members who have signed up for a tour. Note the snow dates listed if weather requires a tour to be cancelled.
BOWDOIN MUSEUM OF ART
Tour Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025 (snow date 1/24)
Morning tour 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Afternoon tour 1:00 pm – 2 pm
Zoom talk: Monday, January 13 at 2 pm with Jennifer Pye, curator and Director of Monhegan Museum of Art & History
Featured exhibit: “Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands”
Monhegan’s history offers lessons for us all. This exhibition brings together artworks, objects, and representations of ecological inquiry and historical documents and photographs to chart forest conversion and recovery on the island.
PERRY-MACMILLAN ARCTIC MUSEUM
Tour Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 (snow date 1/23)
Morning tour 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Afternoon tour – time to be announced
Featured exhibit: “Northern Nightmares: Monsters in Inuit Art”
The landscapes and seascapes of the Arctic appear bleak and barren to those unfamiliar with the region, but Inuit know that they teem with life. Sea mammals and fish are abundant beneath the ice, and vast caribou herds graze on the tundra, willing to present themselves to respectful hunters. Inuit also know that among the animals they hunt to feed their families lurk more dangerous creatures. Monsters roam the land and swim in the icy waters, tempting the unwary into dangerous situations, stalking human prey, and even exacting revenge on behalf of malevolent humans. Come explore the world of monsters as envisioned by Inuit artists from the past and present.