05.05.2008
Captain Cook Memorial Museum Whitby Special Exhibition for 2008:
ci-media has again produced the exhibition graphics for this wonderful treasure of a museum in Whitby. This year’s content concentrates on Cooks voyage to the Arctic:-
Smoking Coasts and ice-bound Seas
The North West Passage was the forgotten purpose of Cook's third Voyage. For two centuries people believed that if the Passage was discovered, then ships could sail from the Atlantic to China more quickly.
Cook's ships probed twice beyond the Bering Straits before being forced back by the pack-ice. For the second attempt, they stopped at Kamchatka in eastern Siberia. Here they experienced a volcanic eruption, met Russians and native peoples, and travelled for the first time on a dog-sled.
With original pictures drawn at the time, in particular the recently acquired Webber Kamchatkan drawings, the exhibition explores the surprising story of this untold part of Cook's voyages. Other rarely seen Webber drawings loaned by the British Library, and material from other major museums are also on display.
