Exhibition open May 18, 2006 through September 4, 2006

The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), through breathtaking photographs, offers a glimpse of the majestic continent of Antarctica that has captured the imagination of explorers, scientists, and armchair travelers alike. Award-winning photographer Joan Myers, recipient of an Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, spent October 2002 through January 2003 photographing scientific study and the daily life at McMurdo Station. She also explored the interior of the continent by plane, ship, helicopter, and snowmobile. Wondrous Cold features 50 stunning color and black-and-white photographs. Large panoramas of Antarctica’s austere beauty and inhuman scale are juxtaposed with wildlife, people, and the abandoned huts of early explorers Scott and Shackleton.


Exhibition open May 18, 2006 through September 4, 2006
Location: First Floor

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Quark Expeditions.