ALASKA'S MUSEUMS : LISTED BY CITY
Anaktuvak
Simon
Paneak Memorial Museum
Open summer: Daily 9-5; winter: M-F 9-5. Admission: $5.
Exhibits of Nunamiut Eskimo traditions. Store.
Located at 341 Mekiana Road.
PO Box 21085
Anaktuvuk Pass AK 99721
(907) 661-3413
Anchorage
Alaska Museum of
Natural History
Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM
Admission: $5 Adults, $3 Kids 6 - 12, Kids under 5 free. $15 for
families and playgroups.
201 N. Bragaw
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 274-2400
Alaska
Native Heritage Center
Open: Summer Hours -- Mothers Day through Mid-Sept.; daily, 9
to 5. Winter Hours -- Nov. 4 through March 31; Saturdays 10:30
- 4:30.
Admission: Adults $19.95; Children $14.95; Family rates.
Welcome House with theater and contemporary culture exhibits.
Five traditional village exhibits with Native Tradition Bearers.
Store.
Located at Muldoon and Glenn Hwy.
8800 Heritage Center Drive
Anchorage AK 99506
(907) 330-8000
(800) 315-6608
Alaska
State Trooper Museum
Open: M-F 10-5; Sa noon-4.
The history of law enforcement in Alaska told in exhibits, memorabilia
and photographs. Store.
Located in Fifth Avenue Mall, entrance on 6th Ave.
PO Box 100280
Anchorage AK 99510
(907) 279-5050
Anchorage
Museum at Rasmuson Center
Open: May 15-Sept 15; daily, including holidays, 9-6, and Thursdays
9-9. Sept 16-May14, Tues-Sat. 10-6, and Sundays noon-5; closed
Mondays.
Admission: adults $8; seniors $7; children 17 and under free.
Members Free.
Exhibits and collections represent Alaska's art, history and Native
cultures. Cafe, library and archives. Store.
Located at 121 West 7th Avenue.
PO Box 196650
Anchorage AK 99519
(907) 343-4326
Alaska
Heritage Museum at Wells Fargo
Open Summer, M-F noon-5; Winter, M-F, 12-4.
Over 900 Alaska Native artifacts, traditional Native clothing,
King Island kayak, fine art by Alaska artists, 46 troy ounce gold
nugget, and mammoth tusk.
Located at Wells Fargo Bank, 301 W. Northern Lights Boulevard
(at C Street).
301 W. Northern Lights Blvd.
Anchorage AK 99510
(907) 265-2834
The
Imaginarium
Open M-Sa 10-6; Su noon-5.
Admission: Adults $5; Seniors $4.50; Children 2-12 & under $4.50.
Hands-on science discovery for all ages, tide pool, planetarium.
Store.
737 W. Fifth Avenue, Suite G
Anchorage AK 99501
(907) 276-3179
Oscar
Anderson House Museum
Open June 1 - mid-Sept: M-F noon-5 and by special arrangement.
Swedish Christmas tours: first two weekends in December.
Admission: Adults $3; Children $1.
Anchorage's only house museum (c. 1915). Depicts the early history
of Anchorage (1915-1925) and the life style of Oscar Anderson,
a businessman, and his family.
420 M Street
Anchorage AK 99501
(907) 274-2336
Russian
Orthodox Museum, Inc
PO Box 210569
Anchorage, AK 99521
(907) 276-7257
(907) 274-7257 Fax
minajacobs@gci.net
Anvik
Anvik Historical Society Museum
Open by arrangement in the summer.
Displays of the history and archaeology of this lower Yukon Athabaskan
village.
Located in old rectory building next to Anvik Commercial.
PO Box 110
Anvik AK 99558
Barrow
Inupiat
Heritage Center, Ilisagvik College
Open M-F 8:30-5.
The Center focuses on the language and knowledge of the Inupiat
people. Activities, collections, and exhibitions of historical
materials, art and science.
PO Box 749
Barrow AK 99723
(907) 852-4594
Bethel
Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center
and Museum
Open Tu-Sa noon-5. Admission: Adults $1.
Exhibits of materials and objects used by the Yup'ik/Cup'ik Eskimo
and Athbascan people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in ancient and
contemporary times. Store. Located at 420 State Highway.
PO Box 219
Bethel AK 99559
(907) 543-1819
Central
Circle Historical Museum
Open summer: Daily noon-5. Upon request at other times.
Admission: $1. Mining equipment, gold and artifacts from the local
area. Miner's cabin and wildflower display.
Located at Mile 128, Steese Highway
PO Box 31893
Central, AK 99730
(907) 520-1893
Copper Center
George Ashby Memorial Museum
Open June 1 - Sept 1: M-Sa 1-5.
The varied past of the Copper River Valley, housed in a rustic
log cabin. Exhibits of early gold and copper mining; Russian artifacts.
Located at Mile 101, Old Richardson Highway, Copper Center Loop
Road.
PO Box 84
Copper Center AK 99573
(907) 822-5285
Cordova
Cordova
Historical Museum
Open Memorial Day - Labor Day;
M-S 10-6; Su 2-4.
Winter: Tu-F 1-5; S 2-4.
Admission: $1; Youth 18 & under and Members of the Cordova Historical
Society, Free.
Displays of explorers, Native culture, Copper River Railway /
Kennicott Mine era, and the fishing industry. Store. Located at
622 First Street.
PO Box 391
Cordova AK 99574
(907) 424-6665]
Ilanka Cultural Center
Open: Summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day) -- M, Tu, Th, F, 10-
5; W, 10- 6, and Sat noon to 4.
Winter -- Tu - F, 10-4 and by appointment.
Tribal repository of the Native Village of Eyak, museum, artist
workspace and gift gallery, specializing in Eyak, Chugach Aleut,
Tlingit and Ahtna culture, prehistory, history and contemporary
life. Traditional skills demonstrations and classes, orca skeleton
and totem.
110 Nicholoff Way (across from the Fishermen's
Memorial)
PO Box 322
Cordova, AK 99574
(907) 424-7903
Fax: (907) 424-3018
Delta junction
Delta Historical Society Museum
Open mid-May - Sept, 7-5.
An old log cabin building displaying artifacts from the early
days of travel on the route between Fairbanks and Valdez. Located
at Rika's Roadhouse, Big Delta State Historical Park.
PO Box 1089
Delta Junction AK 99737
(907) 895-4555
Sullivan
Roadhouse
Open mid-May - Sept.
Visitors center and historic building with displays and photos
of the times and transportation on the winter trail between Fairbanks
and Valdez.
PO Box 987
Delta Junction AK 99737
(907) 895-5068
Eagle
Eagle
Historical Society & Museums
Open daily in Summer 9-5. Admission: $5; children under 12 Free.
Special tours. Winter hours: monday-Friday 9-5. Exhibits in seven
historic buildings dating from the end of the 19th century. Archives
and photo collection. Store. Located at the end of the scenic
Taylor Highway in the Eagle Historic District, a National Historic
Landmark.
PO Box 23
Eagle City AK 99738
(907) 547-2325
Eagle River
Alaska Museum of Natural History
Closed until further notice.
(907) 694-0819
Fairbanks
Alaskaland
Pioneer Air Museum
Open Memorial Day - Labor Day: Daily 11-9. Admission: Adults $2;
Families $5. Memorabilia of Interior and Arctic Alaska aviation
history. Store. Located at Alaskaland Park, Airport Way.
PO Box 70437
Fairbanks AK 99707-0437
(907) 451-0037 or 452-5609
Pioneer
Museum and Big Stampede Show
Open Memorial Day - Labor Day: Daily 11-7. Admission to Show:
Adults $2; Children under 12 $.50; Families $5. Museum contains
artifact, photos, and related information on the history of Fairbanks
and Interior Alaska since the gold rush era. Show depicts the
stampede to the Klondike and Alaska. Store. Located at Alaskaland
Park, Airport Way.
PO Box 70176
Fairbanks AK 99707-6970
(907) 456-8579 or 456-5734
University
of Alaska Museum of the North
Open May 15 - Sept 15 daily 9-7; Sept 16 - May 14: M-F 9-5; weekends
noon-5. Admission: adults, $10, seniors (60+), $9; youth 7-17,
$5; children 6 and under, free. Members and University of Alaska
students with ID, free. Dramatic architecture and awared-winning
exhibits inspired by Alaska Research collections that represent
millions of years of biological diversity and thousands of years
of cultural traditons in the North. Store. Located on the University
of Alaska Fairbanks campus.
PO Box 756960
Fairbanks AK 99775
(907) 474-7505
Wickersham
House Museum
Open Memorial Day - Labor Day: Daily, Noon-8pm. A house museum,
dedicated to the life and times of Judge James Wickersham and
his wife during the years 1904-1910. Located at Pioneer Park,
2400 Airport Way.
PO Box 71336
Fairbanks AK 99707
(907) 455-8947
Haines
Sheldon
Museum & Cultural Center
Open summer: Daily 1-5 + extended hours winter: M-F, 1-4. Admission:
$3; Children under 12 Free. Experience the art & culture of Native
Tlingit people. Relive pioneer daysat the Mission, the Army post,
the gold mines, the canneries and about the valley. Explore on
water-steamship, ferries, lighthouse-on land and in the air. Store.
Located at corner of 1st & Main Streets.
PO Box 269
Haines AK 99827
(907) 766-2366
Homer
Pratt
Museum
Open mid-May - mid-Sept: Daily 10-6 ; mid-Sept - mid-May: Tu-Su
noon-5; closed Jan. Admission: Adults $8; Seniors (65+) $6; Children
6-18 $4; Families $25. Members and Children under 6 Free. Art,
science and culture of the Kachemak Bay region. Homestead cabin,
forest ecology trail, botanical garden; Exxon Valdez oil spill
display, contemporary Alaskan art and Kachemak Bay: An Exploration
of People and Place. Museum Store.
3779 Bartlett St.
Homer AK 99603
(907) 235-8635
info@prattmuseum.org
Juneau
Alaska
State Museum
Open summer daily, 8:30-5:30; winter hours, Tues-Saturday 10-4.
Admission: Adults, summer rate is $5 (mid-May to mid-Sept); winter
rate is $3 (mid-Sept to mid-May); Youth 18 & under Free; Friends
members, free. Annual Pass: $15. Full-sized bald eagle nesting
tree and extensive ethnographic exhibits. Docent tours. Arboretum.
Store.
395 Whittier Street
Juneau AK 99801
(907) 465-2901
Juneau-Douglas
City Museum
Open summer, early May - late Sept Mib-Fri, 9-5, Sat-Sun, 10-5;
Winter: Fri-Sat., noon-4 and by appointment.
Admission: Adults $4; Youth 18 & under, free.
Exhibits on the history and culture of the greater Juneau area,
including basketry style fish trap and relief map. Walkig tour
available May-Sept. Store. Located at 4th & Main Streets.
155 S. Seward
Juneau AK 99801
(907) 586-3572
Last Chance Mining Museum
Open mid-May - late Sept: Daily 9:30-12:30 & 3:30-6:30. Admission
$3. Gold rush museum in historic mining building. Listed on National
Register of Historic Places. Located at end of Busin Road.
PO Box 21264
Juneau AK 99802
(907) 586-5338
Sentinel Island Lighthouse
Open hours and admission to be announced.
Tours and groups events by arrangement. 1902 lighthouse Listed
on Listed on National Register of Historic Places. Loacted at
Lynn Canal, 35 miles north of Juneau.
PO Box 21264
Juneau AK 99802
(907) 586-5338
Kenai
K'beq Interpretive Site
Open May - September, seven days per week, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Admission $5; Children 12 & under Free. Beading classes on Wednesday
and Thursday from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm. Storytelling on Fridays
from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Athabascans share traditions and culture through interpretive
walks featuring archaeological sites and traditional plant use.
Store. Located at Milepost 52.6 of the Sterling Highway, directly
across from the entrance to the Russian River Campground. Kenaitze
Indian Tribe IRA
PO Box 988
Kenai AK 99611
(907) 283-3633
Kenai
Visitors & Cultural Center
Open M-F 9-5, Sa 10-4; extended summer hours. Admission: Summer:
Adults $3; Children free. Displays from Ft. Kenay. Athabaskan,
Aleut and Russian culture; industry; natural history exhibits.
Alaska's history video library. Store.
11471 Kenai Spur Highway
Kenai AK 99611
(907) 283-1991
Ketchikan
Tongass
Historical Museum
Open all year: May - Sept, daily 8-5; Oct - April, Wed-Fri, 1-5
, Sat-Sun, 1-4; closed municipal holidays during winter. Admission:
Adults, $2 May-Sept.; Free, Oct. through April. The life and times
of Alaska's feisty "first city" come to life in artifacts and
images from Ketchikan's colorful past.
629 Dock Street
Ketchikan AK 99901
(907) 225-5600
Totem
Heritage Center
Open all year: May-Sept, daily 8-5; Oct- April, Mon-Fri, 1-5;
closed municipal holidays during winter. Admission: Adults $5
(May-Sept.), FREE Oct-April. World-renowned collection of 19th-century
totem poles retrieved from abandoned Native villages. Store.
Museum located at 601 Deermount Street.
Contact:
629 Dock Street
Ketchikan AK 99901
(907) 225-5900
Kodiak
Alutiiq
Museum & Archaeological Repository
Open summer: Mon-Fri, 9-5, Sat 10-5; winter: Tues-Fri 9-5, Sat
10:30-4:30. Admission: $5; museum members and children 16 &
under Free. Our collections focus on the prehistoric, historic
and living traditions of the Alutiiq people.
215 Mission Rd, Suite 101
Kodiak AK 99615
(907) 486-7004
Baranov
Museum
Open summer: M-Sa 10-4, Su noon-4; winter: M,W,F,Sa 10-3, closed
Th & Su. Admission: Adult $2; Children under 12 Free. Collection
of prehistoric and historical objects from the Aleutian Islands
and the Kodiak Archipelago. Archives. Store. Located in the Erskine
House, a National Historic Landmark.
101 Marine Way
Kodiak AK 99615
(907) 486-5920
Nome
Carrie
M. McLain Memorial Museum
Open June 1 - Spet 30, daily noon-8. Winter: Tu-Sa 12-6. Showcasing
Nome Centennial 1998-2001. Exhibits of Eskimo culture and life
in the Bering Strait Region. Featuring collection of historical
Nome photographs. Located at 200 Front Street.
PO Box 53
Nome AK 99762
(907) 443-6630
Palmer
Palmer Museum of History and Art
Open May 1 - Sept 30: daily 9-6; October - April: M-F 8-3. Free
admission. Summer art show featuring local artists; exhibits on
Matanuska Colony Project, Mat-Maid, homesteading, mining, woodworking,
and farming. Showcase of Alaska flower and vegetables gardens.
723 S. Valley Way
Palmer AK 99645
(907) 746-7668
museum@mtaonline.net
www.palmermuseum.org
Petersburg
Clausen
Memorial Museum
Open May 1 - mid-Sept: Daily 10:30-4:30; Winter: Contact the museum.
Admission: $2; Children 11 & under and Museum members Free. Learn
how to peel a shrimp, harvest a forest, make lutefisk and clean
a salmon. Take a trip to the past. Store. Located at 203 Fram
Street.
PO Box 708
Petersburg AK 99833
(907) 772-3598
Seward
Alaska
SeaLife Center
Open summer: Daily 8-7; winter: 10-5. Admission: Adults $15.00;
Youth $12; Children 6 & under Free. Special group rates. Featuring
research and exhibits on Gulf of Alaska marine wildlife with live
Steller sea lions, birds, seals, and marine tidal life. Store.
Located at 301 Railway Ave.
PO Box 1329
Seward AK 99664
(800) 224-2525
Chugach
Museum and Institute of History and Art
Chugach Museum Location
At the Orca Building, Corner of Third Avenue and Washington Street,
Seward, Alaska Open Hours: Please Contact the Business Office
for the Current Schedule
Business Office and Mailing Address
Chugach Museum and Institute of History and Art
3800 Centerpoint Drive, Suite 601
Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Phone: (907) 563-8866, Extension 4151
Fax: (907) 563-8402
Email: ChugachMuseum@chugach-ak.com
Resurrection Bay Historical Society
Open May - Sept: Daily 10-5. Call for hours Oct - Apr. Admission:
Adults $2; Children $ .50; Preschool Children Free. Seward's history
through photographs, artifacts and documents. Baskets and ivory.
Summer programs. Store. Located at 336 3rd Avenue.
PO Box 55
Seward AK 99664
(907) 224-3902
Sitka
Isabel
Miller Museum
Open May - Sept: Daily 9-5; Oct - May: Tues-Sat 10-noon, 1-4.
Sitka's history unfolds here: exhibits from Tlingit culture, Russian
America, the purchase, pre-statehood, and the contemporary era.
Store. Located downtown in the Harrigan Centennial Building.
330 Harbor Drive
Sitka AK 99835
(907) 747-6455
Sheldon
Jackson Museum
Open summer: Daily 9-5; winter: Tues-Sat 10-4. Admission: Adults
$4; Youth 18 & under Free; Members Free; Museum Pass: $15. Extensive
Alaska Native collections in the oldest concrete structure in
Alaska. Native artist demonstrators each summer. An Alaska State
Museum since 1984. Store. Located near the campus of Sheldon Jackson
College.
104 College Drive
Sitka AK 99835
(907) 747-8981
Sitka
National Historical Park
Open year-round; call for hours. Tlingit ethnographic items, Tlingit
and Haida totem poles, Russian American historical and archaeological
collections, archives and herbarium specimens. Tlingit artists
demonstrate, teach traditional crafts. Store. Located at 106 Metlakatla
Street.
PO Box 738
Sitka AK 99835
(907) 747-6281
The
Russian Bishop's House
Open by appointment. Admission: $3. One of four original Russian
structures remaining in North America. Exhibits interpret Russian
American fur trade in Alaska, and the roles of the Russian American
Company and Russian Orthodox Church. Located in downtown Sitka
on Lincoln Street.
PO Box 738
Sitka AK 99835
(907) 747-6281
Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center
Open May - Sept: Daily 8-5; Oct - Apr: M-F 8-5. Displays. Artists
and demonstrators in wood carving, silver, weaving, and sewing.
Classes on NW Coast art.
106 Metlakatla St.
Sitka AK 99835
(907) 747-8061
Skagway
Klondike
Gold Rush International Historical Park
Open May - mid-Sept: Daily 8-6. Artifacts and historic photographs
of the Klondike Gold Rush. Library, tours, lectures, films. Store.
Located at 2nd & Broadway, White Pass & Yukon RR Depot.
PO Box 517
Skagway AK 99840
(907) 983-2921
Skagway
Museum and Archive
Open May - Sept: M-F 9-5; Sa-Su 1-5. Oct-Apr call museum. Admission:
Adults $2; Students $1; Children 12 and under free; group rates
available. Gold Rush, ethnographic, historical records and photographs.
Located in Historic District, 7th and Spring Streets.
PO Box 521
Skagway AK 99840
(907) 983-2420
Talkeetna
Talkeetna Historical Society
Open May - Sept: Daily 10-6; Oct - Apr: Sa-Su 11-5. Admission:
$3; Children under 12, free. History of Talkeetna including mining,
railroad and aviation. Mountain climbing displays; 12-foot by
12-foot scale model of Mt. McKinley. Located at the corner of
First Alley and Village Airstrip.
PO Box 76
Talkeetna AK 99676
(907) 733-2487
Trapper Creek
Trapper
Creek Museum
Open May-Sept: Daily 10-5. History of mining & trapping in the
local area.
Located at Spruce Lane Farm, .7 mile Petersville Road.
PO Box 13011
Trapper Creek, Ak
(907) 733-2557
Unalaska
Museum
of the Aleutians
Open M-Sa 10-5, Su 12-5, June 1 to Spet 30. Winter: W-Sa 11-4;
Su noon-4 Admission: $2.
PO. Box 648
Unalaska, AK 99685
(907) 581-5150
Valdez
Maxine
& Jesse Whitney Museum
Open May-September 9-7 every day. Winter hours are by
appointment. Adults $5, Seniors 60+ and military $4. Children
under 12- $3. Children under 4 are free. The Maxine & Jesse
Whitney Museum provides a unique look at Alaskan life, cultures,
and wildlife, all in a single venue. The Maxine & Jesse Whitney
Museum has its roots in the generous donation of Mrs. Maxine Whitney
of what was reportedly the largest private collection of Native
Alaskan art and artifacts in the world. Located at the Prince
William Sound Community College campus, in the center of the park
strip in town.
303 Lowe Street / PO Box 97
Valdez, AK 99686
907-834-1690
Fax 835-8933
whitneymuseum@pwscc.edu
Valdez
Museum & Historical Archive
Summer: Daily, 9-6. Winter: Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 12-4. Sunday, closed.
Admission: Adults, $5; Seniors (65+), $4.50, Youth 14+, $4.00;
Youth 13 and under, free. Local history exhibits: Native cultures,
Gold Rush, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, 1989 Oil Spill, Earthquake of
1964 and special replica model of "Old Town Valdez"
prior to '64 earthquake.
Museum located at 217 Egan Drive, downtown Valdez.
PO Box 8
Valdez AK 99686
(907) 835-2764
Wasilla
Dorothy Page Museum & Historic Townsite
Open April-Sept, Mon-Sat 9-5; Oct-Mar, Tues, Thurs, and Fri, 9-5.
Admission: $3; Seniors (60+) $2.50; Youth 12 and under free. Regional
history of mining, homesteading, Iditarod and historic buildings
in townsite.
323 Main Street
Wasilla AK 99654
(907) 373-9071
Museum
of Alaska Transportation & Industry
Open May 1 - Sept 30: Daily 10-6; Oct - April: Tu-Sa 9-5. Admission:
Adults $5; Seniors $4; Students $4; Families $12; Groups $3 per
person; School Groups $1 per person. Machines tell the story of
Alaska's development. Summer events. Store. Located at 3800 W.
Neuser Drive, just off Mile 47 Parks Highway.
PO Box 870646
Wasilla AK 99687
(907) 376-1211
Wrangell
Wrangell
Museum
Open May 1- Sept 30: Mon-Sat, 1:00-5:00; Oct 1- April 30: Tues-Sat,
1:00-5:00. Admission $5 (adults); $3 (60+); $2 (6-12); Children
under 6 Free. History of Wrangell featuring Alaska Native culture.
Original houseposts arom Shakes Island. Fur trade, military, fishing,
timber, missionaries, and 20th century. Store. Located at 296
Campbell Drive.
PO Box 1050
Wrangell AK 99929
(907) 874-3770
museum@wrangell.com
Tribal House of the Bear
Open in the summer during cruise ship stopovers and by appointment.
Admission $2. Replica of Chief Shakes tribal house built in 1834.
Artifacts, photo display, totems, original house posts. Located
at the end of Shakes Street.
PO Box 868
Wrangell AK 99929
(907) 874-3747
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