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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Arctic: Culture and Climate

Oct 22, 2020 – Feb 21, 2021
Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG, UK

It’s hard for those of us south of the Arctic Circle to think of the igloo as something more than a snow-globe fantasy. But for millennia, Arctic populations in the icy north have called them home. An exhibition exploring the nearly 30,000-year history of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic—artifacts range from mammoth jewelry to snow mobiles—comes at a time when climate change fundamentally threatens their way of life. —J.V.