News: AMUNDSEN EXHIBITION
In assocation with the Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway this October the Athy Heritage Centre-Museum will feature the exhibition - 'Cold Recall: Reflection of a Polar Explorer'.
The exhibition was developed by the Fram Museum to showcase images from the lantern slides that Roald Amundsen used in public lectures about his expeditions through the Northwest Passage and to the South Pole with particular emphasis on Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole.
The texts in the exhibition are primarily drawn from Amundsen’s own manuscripts from these lectures.
The exhibition is also complemented by Amundsen material from a number of private collections.
The Shackleton School is indebted to the Norwegian Embassy in Ireland and in particular to former Ambassador Öyvind Nordsletten in securing the exhibition for its inaugural staging in Ireland