Saving Scott's Negatives

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For further information please go to: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum To make an online donation: http://bit.ly/1nWQz0k The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute has launched a video of Britain's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, giving his full support to the appeal and explaining the importance of preserving the negatives for the nation. Fiennes stresses the uniqueness of the negatives and their importance both to the national heritage and research. The Polar Museum needs to raise £275,000 in less than a month to avoid the prospect of the 113 photographic negatives being sold off at auction. The negatives represent an extraordinary visual record of Scott's last expedition, but are in danger of being sold abroad. The negatives have been recently rediscovered, having been thought lost. This is the only chance a museum in the United Kingdom has of acquiring this extraordinary visual record of Scott's last, heroic expedition. The Museum has no budget for acquisitions and is entirely reliant on public support. In the video, Sir Ranulph Fiennes says: "The negatives of Scott's lost photographs of are of major significance to the national heritage. Scott's attainment of the South Pole and his subsequent death captured the public imagination on its discovery in 1913 and continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination. The negatives are a key component of the expedition's material legacy as an object and as a collection in themselves.

Published 2014-03-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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