YUKON ART SOCIETY
HOUGEN HERITAGE GALLERY
Finding the Goddard: A Very Personal Kind of Wreck
Walk down the stairs to Arts Underground and submerge yourself in the personalities, stories and research involved with Finding the Goddard. The AJ Goddard went down in a horrific winter storm in 1901. The complete and undisturbed nature of the wreck provides an unparalleled opportunity for divers, archaeologists, and historians to explore the little known life of the Yukon riverboat working class. Delve into the interviews of the people who work on the Goddard project such as Yukon Government Museums Conservator Val Monahan, “The artefacts recovered represents the everyday life of a small number of men... And that’s not often what you see in the way that archaeology and history are interpreted... a very personal kind of wreck.”
Finding the Goddard invites you to a personal and multi-media experience of the northern nature of historical and archaeological research conducted on an internationally significant shipwreck.
YTM’s Finding the Goddard exhibit is on display at Arts Underground through January 31, 2012.
Presented by Yukon Transportation Museum
