About this Event
Museums are repositories of a diverse array of items that they pledge to care for forever. Their collections, whether they be artworks, objects, photographs, documents, or natural history specimens, are valued for the stories they hold, their aesthetic value, their links to historic events, and the contributions they can make to current and future research.
Museum collections vary in size. This museum is home to around 70,000 items, including everything from photographs and artworks to a 100-year-old mounted muskoxen! The collection grows as generous individuals donate treasured possessions or funds for collection acquisitions and curatorial staff members make selective purchases.
Here we present a small selection of items added to the collection through donation or purchase over the last ten years. They represent only the tip of the iceberg, a small fraction of the items we added to the collection in the last decade. Collectively they tell the story of diversity of our collection; individually and in groups they tell a variety of stories. Here we have selected objects that highlight aspects of both traditional and contemporary Inuit art and craft, expeditions to the Arctic and the souvenirs associated with them, and the frequent and sometimes surprising connections among donated collections.
