BRUNSWICK — The Peary- MacMillan Arctic Museum’s exhibit “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Collection of Robert and Judith Toll” will close Dec. 4.

“It’s been exciting,” museum outreach coordinator Amy Hawkes said in a release. “Word has certainly spread that ‘ Imagination Takes Shape’ is not to be missed.”

Two new exhibits will open this spring at the museum.

“Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World” will focus on Arctic animals. It will feature contemporary sculptures and prints from the Toll collection, along with ethnographic objects and natural history specimens, including close-up views of a polar bear and a caribou.

“ In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky” will highlight Inuit transformation carvings recently donated to the museum by Rabbi Sky. This exhibit will focus on the parallels he sees between his own teachings that people are constantly changing and transforming themselves as they live their lives and Inuit carvings of human/animal transformations.

According to curator Genevieve LeMoine, the staff is sorry to see “Imagination Takes Shape” close, but excited about the new exhibits as well.

“Among other things, changing exhibits give us a chance to put new pieces from the Toll donation on display for the first time,” she said in the release, “as well highlight other works that visitors have never seen.”

The museum will remain open as the exhibits change, but some galleries will be closed while work continues.

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is located on the first floor of Hubbard Hall on the Bowdoin College campus. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., and Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays and national holidays.

The museum is closed today and will reopen Saturday.

For more information, call 725-3416 or go to www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum.