Photo: National museum challenging Arctic perspectives

Who’s free? Who’s trapped? Arctic Voices, a new exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, hopes to challenge people’s perceptions, and preconceived notions, about the changing Arctic. The travelling exhibit, curated in partnership with Science North in Sudbury, Ont., opens not with a polar bear but with a herd of muskoxen and a multi-coloured spring tundra scene and leads visitors through interpretive displays, interactive games, short films and stunning photography which delve into the people, places and wildlife in the North. The exhibit, which runs until May 3, is a teaser for a permanent Arctic gallery the national museum hopes to open in 2017, in time for Canada’s 150th birthday. See story later on nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY LISA GREGOIRE)