Tourism, Culture and Recreation
September 10, 2009
The following is being distributed at
the request of The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and
Labrador:
Media Advisory:
Across the Polar Sea Exhibition to Open at
The Labrador Interpretation Centre, Saturday, September
12, 2009
Media are advised that the exhibition
Across the Polar Sea: With Robert E. Peary of the
North Pole Expedition will be on display at The
Labrador Interpretation Centre from September 12 through
November 1, 2009.
Across the Polar Sea: With Robert E.
Peary of the North Pole Expedition
is a special travelling exhibition which
consists of 33 enlargements of hand-tinted lantern
slides used by Donald B. MacMiillan in subsequent
lecture tours. The majority of the images are his own
photographs, augmented with a few taken by other members
of the expedition including Robert E. Peary, his
assistant Matthew Henson, and one of MacMillan�s
Inughuit companions. The texts accompanying the
beautiful images are MacMillan�s own words. The
exhibition is on loan from the Peary-MacMillan Arctic
Museum.
In addition to the exhibition of
Across the Polar Sea, The
Labrador Interpretation Centre will also display David
Blackwood�s painting, Home from Bragg�s Island, a
recent donation to the province from BMO Financial Group
in celebration of Newfoundland and Labrador�s 60th
anniversary of confederation with Canada. Home from
Bragg�s Island will be on display until April, 2010.
Media are invited to view both
exhibitions during The Labrador Interpretation Centre�s
normal hours of operation: Wednesday through Sunday,
1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. (closed Mondays and Tuesdays).
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Media contact:
Jena Mitchell
Manager of Marketing
The Rooms Corporation
709-757-8144
jenamitchell@therooms.ca
2009 09 10
2:45 p.m.
