Ship brings Vancouver museum's Northwest Passage exhibit to Nunavut

A ship that played a role in last year's discovery ofa sunken vessel from the ill-fated Franklin expedition will carry a
Vancouver Maritime Museum exhibit through the Northwest Passage nextmonth.

The exhibit is a travelling portion of the museum's current show"Across the Top of the World: the Quest for the NorthwestPassage," which opened in May and runs through summer 2016.

It will be carried by the One Ocean Voyager Akademik SergeyVavilov during an Arctic cruise and brought ashore for display atPond Inlet and Cambridge Bay in Nunavut, with more communities to bevisited in the coming year, the museum said. The ship supported theParks Canada-led effort that found Sir John Franklin's ship HMSErebus in the Queen Maud Gulf.

The exhibit includes artifacts from explorer Roald Amundsen'sship Maud and from the RCMP schooner St. Roch, which sailed throughthe Northwest Passage in the 1940s, said the museum, which ispartnering with One Ocean Expeditions on the project.

Fares for the 13-day mid-August cruise from Kangerlussuaq,Greenland, to Cambridge Bay range from US$8,395 to US$14,995,according to One Ocean Expeditions' website.