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Float Your Boat to Help With Polar Science: Boat Kit Pick-Up

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Join the National Nordic Museum in learning about the Arctic environment and helping out with a research project! Sign up for a time slot to pick up a toy boat, take it home and decorate it, and return it to the Museum by May 29. Decorated boats will be shipped to Svalbard, Norway and used to help polar scientists study ocean currents, drift patterns, and the changing Arctic.

To participate in this project, sign up for a time slot to pick up a boat at the Museum between 12pm-3pm on May 14, 15 or 16! This is program is available while supplies last. 

Choose from the time slots here to pick up your boat at the National Nordic Museum.

Boats must be returned to the Museum by May 29 in order to participate in this project. 

Cost: Free; RSVP for a time slot to pick up your boat

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