Museums on Bowdoin's campus include the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

Bowdoin's archetypal Hubbard Hall, once the College's library

Harriet Beecher Stowe, " the little lady who started this big war ," started writing her influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in Bowdoin's Appleton Hall while her husband was teaching at the College, and Brigadier General ( and Brevet Major General ) Joshua Chamberlain, a Bowdoin alumnus and professor, was responsible for receiving the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in 1865.

In 2010, Bowdoin's art history program was ranked as the top program in the nation by U. S. News and World Report.

In Fall 2010, Bowdoin's acceptance rate was the fifth lowest among liberal arts colleges ranked by U. S. News and World Report.

Bowdoin's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded in 1825, is the nation's sixth oldest.

The episode was not filmed on Bowdoin's campus, but was filmed at Drew University in New Jersey.

When the court in Worcester was shut down by similar action on September 5, the county militia ( composed mainly of men sympathetic to the protestors ) refused to turn out, much to Bowdoin's amazement.

Personal factors may also have played a role in Bowdoin's shift in views: John Temple, the local customs commissioner and Bowdoin's son in law, was embroiled in nasty disputes with Governor Francis Bernard in the 1760s.

Acting Governor Thomas Hutchinson acquiesced to Bowdoin's return to the council, reasoning that he was less dangerous there than as an outspoken critic in the lower house.

( Bowdoin's Beacon Street mansion was occupied by General John Burgoyne.

When the court in Worcester was shut down by similar action on September 5, the county militia ( composed mainly of men sympathetic to the protestors ) refused to turn out, much to Bowdoin's chagrin.

Bowdoin's funeral was one of the largest of the time in Boston, with people lining the streets to view the funeral procession.

Unfortunately there is no evidence that Bowdoin's suit was ever built, or that it would have worked if it had been.

Bowdoin's supporters, who were principally well-off commercial interests from Massachusetts coastal communities, cast Hancock as a foppish demagogue who pandered to the populace.

Although Bowdoin's Medical School of Maine closed its doors in 1921, the College is currently known for its particularly strong programs in the natural sciences.

Bowdoin's connections to the Civil War have prompted some to quip that the war " began and ended " in Brunswick.

In fact, admission of minorities goes back at least as far as John Brown Russwurm 1826, Bowdoin's first African-American college graduate, and the third African-American graduate of any American college.

Bowdoin's dining services has been ranked # 1 among all universities and colleges nationally by Princeton Review in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013.

) These days, Morgan observed, the College offers a far broader array of recreational opportunities: " If we could have looked forward in time to Bowdoin's standard of living today, we would have been astounded.

Bowdoin's student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, is the oldest continuously published college weekly in the United States.

The Meddiebempsters are the oldest of Bowdoin's six a cappella groups and the third-oldest a cappella group in the nation.

Women's basketball and field hockey have been Bowdoin's most successful teams.

2011 also saw Bowdoin's 4th NCAA National Championship, with a win in the Men's Tennis doubles.

Bowdoin's athletic facilities combine modern buildings with old traditions, and have been historically used as training grounds for Olympic athletes.

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College is named for Peary and fellow Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan.

The amateur archaeologist Miloradovich's 1933 finds are held in the Arctic and Antarctic Museum in St. Petersburg Dmitriy Kravchenko visited the site in 1977, 1979 and 1980 – and sent divers into the sea hoping to find the wreck of the large ship.

Stromness Museum reflects these aspects of the town's history ( displaying for example important collections of whaling relics, and Inuit artefacts brought back as souvenirs by local men from Greenland and Arctic Canada ).

* Robert McGhee – Archaeologist and author specializing in the archaeology of the Arctic, currently Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.

* Morris Ketchum Jesup, banker, philanthropist, president of the American Museum of Natural History and the Peary Arctic Club.

The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.

Northern and Arctic invertebrates in the collection of the Swedish State Museum ( Riksmuseum ).

Bellingshausen's diary, his report to the Russian Naval Minister on 21 July 1821 and other documents, available in the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in Saint Petersburg, Russia, were carefully compared with the log-books of other claimants by the British polar historian A. G. E. Jones in his 1982 study Antarctica Observed.

He also wrote accounts dealing with the natural history, and especially the ichthyology, of several other Arctic voyages, and was the author of Icones Piscium ( 1843 ), Catalogue of Apodal Fish in the British Museum ( 1856 ), the second edition of Yarrell's History of British Fishes ( 1860 ), The Polar Regions ( 1861 ).

* Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, The discovery and history of exploration of the Northern Sea Route

One of his first tasks was to create a Zoology Museum for teaching and research-at the time this was regarded as one of the largest in the country, specialising in Arctic zoology due to D ' Arcy's links to the Dundee whalers.

In May 2007, Robert Sullivan, the former associate director in charge of exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History, charged that Samper and Smithsonian Undersecretary for Science David Evans ( Samper's supervisor ) ordered " last minute " changes in the exhibit " Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely " to tone down the role of human beings in the discussion of global warming, and to make global warming seem more uncertain than originally depicted.

In 1926, under the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History, he led an expedition to the Arctic, up the west coast of Greenland.

Under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, he and Dr. R. M. Anderson undertook the ethnological survey of the Central Arctic coasts of the shores of North America from 1908 to 1912.

George B. Leavitt, a Massachusetts whaling ship captain and friend of Stefansson's who sometimes brought the Arctic explorer replenishments of supplies from the American Museum of Natural History.

Stefansson had returned home with plans for another expedition to continue his Arctic studies, and obtained promises of financial backing totalling USD45, 000 ( around USD750, 000 in 2010 ) from the National Geographic Society ( NGS ) in Washington and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The Jensen Arctic Museum at WOU is the only museum on the west coast of the contiguous states dedicated to the Arctic culture, and one of two in the entire United States outside of Alaska, the other being in the state of Maine.

Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1999.

She is now accessible to the public, alongside the Arctic Penguin at the Inveraray Maritime Museum, and continues to make sailings.