Visitors venturing into the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum may find themselves looking a polar bear in the eye, learning to pronounce the Inuit names for various animals, marveling at Inuit carvings of beings that seem half animal and half human, or touching a narwhal tusk.

Animal Allies: Inuit Views of the Natural World, which explores the relationship between humans and animals in the Inuit world, has just opened and runs though April 6, 2014.