On February
24 the exhibition «Archipelagos of the Arctic» was opened. This is a partnership
project of the Darwin Museum and the publishing house «Paulsen». About 40
photos introduce the viewers amazing landscapes and rare animals of
hard-to-reach territories of the Russian Arctic – the archipelagos of Land of
Franz Joseph and Novaya Zemlya, Wrangel Island, Ushakov Island, Novosibirsk
Islands. The authors who brought these pictures from Arctic expeditions are the
director Leonid Kruglov, the photographer Sergey Gorshkov and the oceanologist Mikhail
Flint.
The
director of the publishing house «Paulsen» Raisa Niaeglova-Kolosova addressed a
speech to many guests. She presented the albums «Arctic archipelagos. Highlatitude panorama» by Leonid Kruglov and «Novaya Zemlya. From Abrasymov Bay to Rose Glacier» by Mikhail Flint.
In his turn,
Mikhail told the audience about different «personalities» of the southern and
northern islands of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, about the smell of wet stone
and the silence of the Arctic bays. He noted that a good picture of this
landscape can be made only when you live there. Eleven seasons of expeditions
to Novaya Zemlya gave him this opportunity.
Leonid
Kruglov shared his plans for the future – the preparation to expeditions to the
Arctic islands and work on a new documentary film.
The evening
ended with an autograph session and demonstration of the video clip by Leonid
Kruglov named #НОВАЯЗЕМЛЯ_DOC
and the documentary about the 63rd scientific cruise of research vessel
«Mstislav Keldysh» under the guidance of M.V. Flint – «Spaces of high
latitude».
The
exhibition «Archipelagos of the Arctic» will be opened until April 17 in the gallery
on -1 floor of the Exhibition Complex.
17 January 2024
Re-exposition of the display case “Wetland complex of Losiny Island”
25 December 2023
Gifts to the museum: drawings by M. D. Ezuchevsky and a screen made according to the artist’s sketch
11 December 2023
The exhibition “Big Portrait for Small Company” from the collection of the State Darwin Museum opened in China
1 December 2023
“Image/s of the North in Russian and European art” Interdisciplinary scientific conference