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
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
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
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
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
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 Rates (Does not include admission to premium exhibitions or to Planetarium)
Adults: $12 ,
Senior/Student/Military: $9 , ,
Children (3-12): $7 ,
Infants (0-2): free
Exhibits and collections represent Alaska's art, history and Native
cultures. Cafe, library and archives. Store.
Located at 625 C Street
Anchorage AK 99501
907-929-9201
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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
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
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
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]
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
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
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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
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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
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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
The
Imaginarium
The Imaginarium Discovery Center is now part of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmusson Center
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
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
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
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
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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
Maxine
& Jesse Whitney Museum
Open May-September 9-7 every day. Winter hours are
by appointment. Admission is free; donations appreciated. 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 907-834-1692
whitneymuseum@pwscc.edu
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
Museum of the
Aleutians
Open M-Sa 10-5, Su 12-5, June 1 to Sept 30. Winter: W-Sa 11-4;
Su noon-4 Admission: $2.
PO. Box 648
Unalaska, AK 99685
(907) 581-5150
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
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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
www.palmermuseum.org
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
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
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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
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
Russian Orthodox
Museum, Inc
PO Box 210569
Anchorage, AK 99521
(907) 276-7257
(907) 274-7257 Fax
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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
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
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
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
Sitka Historical 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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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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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
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
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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
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
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Yupiit Piciryarait Museum
Open Tuesday-Saturday 12-4. Admission: Adults $1.
The Yupiit Piciryarait Museum is conveniently located in the same building which houses the Regional Cultural Center and the University of Alaska, Kuskokwim Campus Library. The Museum has three galleries. One gallery is reserved for permanent exhibits of clothing, household, hunting and gathering implements used by the people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in ancient and contemporary times. Two galleries are reserved for short term exhibitions.
(907) 543-1819
PO Box 219
Bethel AK 99559
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