This is an interactive exhibition best suited for elementary school children 6-12 years of age.
Dressed as Polar researchers, with an assignment card in hand, each child can explore the exhibition to gather data from satellites, see beautiful satellite pictures of the poles, sit on mats with huge polar maps, measure distances on a large globe and chill in a cool room.
There are games to play about the wild life in the Arctic regions, Glacier Memory, Ice Core and Ice Age puzzles, films, animations and websites.
Visitors can spin the “season spinner” with information on the Polar night, the Midnight sun and pictures of fantastic birds. There is a model of the ice breaker Oden and a slab of melting ice symbolizing the disappearing Greenland permafrost. Children are encouraged to leave an imprint in the exhibition – a Climate Promise/ What can I do? - in the shape of a water droplet or a snowball.
The exhibition focuses on climate and gives the young visitors the idea that research really is like a big international puzzle.
Recommended group size is 15 children for 45 minutes. A class of 30 can be divided, but the total time in the exhibition would then amount to 1 ½ hours. The class needs to be accompanied by at least two adults.Bookings from schools are welcome during the period April 16 – May 27 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings.
Please email sofia.franklin@hotmail.com or call (202) 467-2600 to make a reservation for your class or school.
Directions:Embassy of Sweden – House of Sweden 901 30th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007, on the Waterfront in Georgetown, south of K Street. There is no street parking, but there is metered parking across Rock Creek near Thompson’s Boathouse.
The nearest Metro stop is Foggy Bottom on the Orange or Blue Lines. It itakes about 15 minutes to walk from Foggy Bottom down K Street to the Embassy.
Metro Bus lines 32, 34, 35 and 36 all make a stop at 30th and M Streets, N.W. . From there it is a 5 minute walk downhill to House of Sweden.