The Accessible Arctic

An exhibition of photographs from the archives of Canadian National Geographic featuring the Canadian Arctic region
Assembled and curated by the Canadian Museum of Nature

As part of this exhibition, there will be screening of films on Friday, 16th August 2013 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Lords of the Arctic (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Caroline Underwood

The film focuses on the Northern wildlife and its close and tragic relation to climate change, which affects all of the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. A wildlife specialist, the filmmaker uses a global approach in treating her subjects

People of the Ice (52 min; 2003; dvd; English)
Director: Carlos Ferrand

This feature documentary explores the threats of global warming to the Arctic environment that has nurtured the Inuit for 4,000 years. The Inuit have lived in harmony on this frozen landscape for generations. Today, global warming threatens their habitat. As the ice disappears, so does the Inuit culture it is intimately connected to. Will this extraordinarily resilient people be able to adjust to such dramatic change?