"Race to the End of the Earth"

Between 1911 and 1912, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and British Royal Navy captain Robert Falcon Scott embarked on separate expeditions to the South Pole. Each hoped to be the first to make the 1,800-mile trek from the Ross Ice Shelf, on the coast of Antarctica—the world’s largest ice shelf—to the pole and back. Only Amundsen survived. This exhibit takes museumgoers inside Amundsen and Scott’s daily lives at the coldest place on earth, and gives us a look at Antarctica today.