Sir John Franklin, daguerreotype by Baird, 1845. ‘HMS 'Assistance' in the ice’ by Thomas Sewell Robins, 1853.

Sir John Franklin, daguerreotype by Baird, 1845

‘HMS 'Assistance' in the ice’ by Thomas Sewell Robins, 1853

Pocket chronometer from the Franklin expedition

Snow goggles from the Franklin expedition

‘Group portrait of Inuit girls and women’ by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield, 1854

‘One of the Greenland Inuit’ by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield, 1854

‘Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922)’, by Reginald Grenville Eves, 1921

The ‘Endurance’ stuck in the ice by Frank Hurley, 1915

Hussey and James onboard 'Endurance' by Frank Hurley, 1915

Ocean Camp by Frank Hurley, 1915

Banjo from the Shackleton Expedition

Marine Chronometer

Captain Robert Falcon Scott

Polar explorer’s sled

Polar explorer’s glove