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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Globes and globe gores

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Sundials

Telescopes

Fine art

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Albums

Drawings

Miniatures

Oil paintings

Prints

Sketchbooks

Watercolours

Polar Equipment and Relics

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Franklin relics

North America

Type

armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow

armament t&e, edged weapon: bow

Arrow

Artificial Glass Horizon

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)

Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class

bedding: blanket, point

blanket, point

Block model

book

Boots

Boots, pair

Bow

Box Sextant

Bust

Canteen

ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge

Chart

Chart; Print

clothing, footwear: boot(pair)

clothing, headwear: hat

clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, cocked

clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Captain's

clothing, outerwear: smock

clothing, outerwear: trousers

clothing accessory: glove, outer

clothing accessory: mitt

clothing accessory: staybusk

Cocked hat

compass

Dip circle

documentary artifact: manual, student's(fragment-2 pages only)

documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat

drafting t&e: rule, parallel

Drawing

Figure

fishing & trapping t&e: flenser, whaling(blubber spade?)

fishing & trapping t&e: harpoon, whaling

flenser, whaling

food service t&e: canteen

food service t&e: rations: biscuit, ship's

food service t&e: rations: can, food

food service t&e: rations: pemmican, tin of(arctic food)

food service t&e: rations: sample, meat

Full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

game: puzzle, jigsaw

Glove, outer

Hat

hat, cocked

iceworking t&e: knife, snow

Insulated compass

Insulating compass

Jackstaff

Jigsaw puzzle

leatherworking t&e: knife, ulu

MAP-SHEET

Marine chronometer

Meat sample

Medal

medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine

Medicine chest

Microscope

Mitt

musical t&e: violin

Naval telescope

Night telescope

optical t&e: microscope

optical t&e: telescope

Order

Ore sample

Ore samples

original art: ornament

original art: print

original art: sculpture: bust

other structure: harbour

Outer glove

Painting

Parallel rule

personal gear: goggles, snow(anti snow blindness shield)

personal gear: satchel

personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order

Plate

Pocket chronometer

Pocket compass

Pocket Quintant

presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander

Prize medal

Prize medal, British: Royal Geographical Society, 1835

quintant, pocket

relic, animal: zoological specimen: beaver, stuffed

relic: geological specimen: sample, ore(7 samples)

rubber, seam

Satchel

Seam rubber

Ship's biscuit

Shotgun

Sledge compass

Sledge flag

Smock

Snow goggles

Snow knife

Staybusk

Student's manual

Stuffed beaver

surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip

surveying & navigational t&e: compass

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket: compass, sledge

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, pocket

Sword

Telescope

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)

timekeeping t&e: chronometer, pocket

Tin

Tinned pemmican

Token

Trousers

Ulu (knife)

Violin

Watercolour

water transport: exploration/research vessel

water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)

water transport: exploration/research vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop

water transport: fighting vessel: warship (74 gun)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)

water transport: native craft: kayak, eskimo (Caribou)

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: barque

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport: unknown function: sloop (HMS)

water transport accessory: jackstaff

Whale tooth

Whaling harpoon

Materials

antler

aquatint, coloured

autotype

beaver felt

bird quill

bone

brass

Brass

brass, glass, card, iron

bronze

canvas

card

copper

cotton

earthenware

enamel

engraving

engraving, coloured

etching

etching, coloured

feathers

felt

fish-skin

flesh

fur

gilt brass

gilt wire

glass

gold

gold bullion

gold thread

hand sewn

horn

inorganic: glass

iron

ivory

leather

Linen

mahogany

marble

metal

Metal

metal-gilt

metal: brass

metal: brass, anodised

metal: silver

metal: steel

metal: tin

mica

moose skin

oil on canvas

ore

organic: flesh

organic: ivory

paint

paper

ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or Lagopus lagopus) feather

quill

silk

silk thread

silver

silvered brass

sinew

skin

steel

tar

tin

varnish

watercolour

whalebone

Whale tooth

wheat flour

wood

wood (walnut)

wood [handle]

wool

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

A. Constable & Co

Andrieu, Bertrand

Arnold, John Roger

Aspin, Jehoshophat

Back, George

Bate, Robert

Boehm, Josef Daniel

British School, 19th century

Cary

Cary, William

Crichton

Cruikshank, George

Dollond & Aitchison

Finden, Edward Francis

Firmin & Sons Limited

Franklin, Jane

Gilbert & Sons

Gillott & Hasell

Goldner, Stephen

Gould, Rupert

Gould, Rupert Thomas

Hewitt, N. R.

Hicks, G. H.

HM Admiralty

Hodges, William

Hudson's Bay Company

Humphrey, George

Jansson, Jan

Jennings and Company

John Adams & Son

John Tallis & Co

Lizars, D

Lizars, William Home

Lucchesi, Andrea Carlo

Marcassus, Jean Pierre Casimir de

Mercator, Gerardus

Murray, John

Musin, Francois Etienne

N., I.

Negelen, Joseph Mathias

Parkinson & Frodsham

Richard Timmins & Sons

Robinson

Robinson, Thomas Charles

Romilly, Amelie

Ross, John

Sackhouse, John

Scoresby, Reverend William

Smyth, William Henry

Starbeck Taxidermy

Thomson, John

Timmins, R & Sons

Unknown

W. & D. Lizars, William Home & Daniel

Waddel, James

Walker, J.

Webber, John

Wildman, John Robert

Wyon, William

Places

Amsterdam

Austria

Birmingham

Canada

Devonport

Edinburgh

England

France

Harrogate, Yorkshire, England

London

Oxford

Staffordshire

Strand

Unknown

Events

Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1833-1835

Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1836-1837

Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Second Overland Expedition, 1825-1827

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Arctic Exploration: Parry's first voyage, 1819-1820

Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823

Arctic Exploration: Ross' First Voyage, 1818-1819

Arctic Exploration: Ross' second voyage, 1829-1833

Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776

Vessels

Adventure (purchased 1771)

Assistance (1835)

Beagle (1820)

Discovery (1901)

Earl of Mar and Kellie (1856)

Erebus (1826)

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Griper (1813)

Hecla (1815)

Isabella (1813)

Phoenix (1832)

Resolute (purchased 1850)

Resolution (purchased 1771)

Terror (1813)

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage

Nelson, Navy, Nation

North-West Passage

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Voyagers

People

Arnold, John Roger

Australian Landscape Touring Exhibition

Back, George

Blake, William Hans

British Institution ?

Co, Hudson Bay

Cook, James

Franklin, Jane

Franklin, John

Frobisher, Martin

Greenwich Hospital

Harrison, Paymaster Edward Newell

HM Admiralty

Hudson's Bay Company

Kallihirua, Erasmus

Kenyon, Walter A.

King William IV

Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory

McClintock, Francis Leopold

McClintock, John Leopold Elphinstone

McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier

Negelen, Joseph Mathias

Ommanney, Erasmus

Parry, William Edward

Pim, Bedford Clapperton Tryvillion

Ross, Arthur

Ross, James Clark

Ross, John

Royal Academy of Arts, London

Scott, Robert Falcon

West, John

Young, W (RN)

Century

unknown

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Tinned pemmican

snow goggles, Inuit type (Snow goggles)

Satchel

'Perilous position of H.M.S. Terror, Captain Back, in the Arctic Regions in the summer of 1837' (Painting)

HMS Erebus (1826); Exploration/research vessel (Full hull model; Block model)

Prize medal: Royal Geographical Society 1835 (Prize medal)

Qalasirssuaq (Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua), circa 1832/5-1856 (Painting)

HMS Erebus in the Ice, 1846 (Painting)

Whaling harpoon

Large Gold medal, Société de Géographie, Paris, 1827 (Prize medal)

Cocked hat, Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843

Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843 (Cocked hat)

blanket, point

Jennings Insulating Compass (Insulating compass)

PAG7970; First communication with the natives of Prince Regents Bay by John Sackheouse, presented to Captain Ross, August 10th 1818

First communication with the Natives of Prince Regents Bay, as Drawn by John Sackhouse and presented to Capt. Ross, Augt 10, 1818 (Print)

AAA0834; Sledge flag with Anchor design and embroidered 'Hope On' 'Hope Ever'

Sledge flag (Sledge flag)

Parallel rule

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