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For over 300 years explorers risked their lives to search the Arctic for a route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans

Bringing together curators, scholars and artists, this online conference examines the role of photography and film narratives in shaping cultural perceptions of the Arctic, Antarctic and the history of polar exploration

Discover life, work and play at sea through the lens of six seafarers and researchers

As we mark International Day of the Seafarer on the 25 June 2021, it is important to remember the huge sacrifice seafarers are making. As the crew change crisis continues, hundreds of thousands of seaworkers cannot leave their ships and return to their families due to coronavirus.

Read short biographies of Royal Museums Greenwich's Trustees

How Greenwich found its place in the centre of global time and navigation

Time-capsules of their present and windows of our past, shipwrecks can offer new perspectives into life on board

In what is often considered one of the most extreme environments on Earth, harsh conditions made work difficult not only for the scientists, but also for their instruments.

100 years on from the death of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, curator Jeremy Michell looks back on the life and legacy of the polar explorer