This list of museums in Alaska is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
| Name | Town/City | Borough | Region | type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Aviation Museum | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Aviation | Historic aircraft and aviation history of Alaska |
| Alaska Jewish Museum | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Religious | Alaska Jewish Culture |
| Alaska Museum of Science and Nature | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Natural history | Website, dinosaur skeletons, fossils, rocks, geology, wildlife |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Alaskan Native | Showcases the indigenous culture of the Alaska Natives, including tools, watercraft, clothing, art, drums and more |
| Alaska State Museum | Juneau | Juneau | Southeast | Multiple | Alaska Natives, history, natural history & art |
| Alaska State Troopers Museum | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Law enforcement | Commemorates Alaska State Troopers & features a variety of historical memorabilia, including a restored 1952 Hudson Hornet patrol car. |
| Alaska Veterans Museum | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Alaska's Military History | Commemorates Alaska's Military History, Honor our veterans, educate our visitors. Features large collection of Oral Histories, Exhibits on The Forgotten War, Eskimo Scouts (ATG), Muktuk Marston, The Last Shot, Cold War, Nike Site, Vietnam, Korean War, Modern Conflicts. |
| Alfred Starr Cultural Center and Museum | Nenana | Unorganized | Interior | Alaskan Native | Website |
| Alutiiq Museum | Kodiak | Kodiak Island | Southwest | Alaskan Native | Koniag Alutiiq heritage and culture |
| American Bald Eagle Foundation Museum | Haines | Haines | Southeast | Natural history | Website, natural history of bald eagles and other animals in its environment |
| Anchorage Alaska Center | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Multiple | Visitor center, exhibits on natural, historical, and cultural features throughout the state [1] |
| Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Multiple | Art, history & culture of Alaska; largest museum in Alaska. |
| Anvik Historical Society and Museum | Anvik | Unorganized | Interior | Local history | [2] |
| Baranov Museum | Kodiak | Kodiak Island | Southwest | Local history | Operated by the Kodiak Historical Society |
| Big Delta State Historical Park | Big Delta | Unorganized | Interior | Local history | Includes historic roadhouse, museum of local history artifacts |
| Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum | Nome | Unorganized | Arctic Alaska | Local history | Website |
| Clausen Memorial Museum | Petersburg | Petersburg | Southeast | Local history | Website, exhibits include fishing, merchants, businesses, Tlingit |
| Cordova Museum | Cordova | Unorganized | Southcentral | Local history | Website, operated by the Cordova Historical Society |
| Dorothy Page Museum | Wasilla | Matanuska-Susitna | Southcentral | Local history | City history |
| Duncan Cottage Museum | Metlakatla | Unorganized | Southeast | Historic house | Facebook site |
| Eagle Historical Society & Museums | Eagle | Unorganized | Interior | Local history | Website |
| Elmendorf Wildlife Museum | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Natural history | Small museum located at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Information, look for listing |
| Fairbanks Community Museum | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Local history | Located in the former city hall |
| Fairbanks Ice Museum | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Art | Ice sculptures |
| Fort Egbert | Eagle | Unorganized | Interior | Military | Early 20th-century Army base buildings |
| Gold Dredge 8 | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Mining | Includes Tanana Valley Railroad ride to historic gold panning dredge |
| Hammer Museum | Haines | Haines | Southeast | Technology | Features over 1,700 hammers and related tools, ranging from an ancient Roman battle axe to modern novelty hammers |
| Hope & Sunrise Historical and Mining Museum | Hope | Kenai Peninsula | Southcentral | Local history | Website |
| Ilanka Cultural Center | Cordova | Unorganized | Southcentral | Alaskan Native | Website |
| Inupiat Heritage Center | Utqiaġvik | North Slope | Arctic Alaska | Alaskan Native | Recognizes contributions of Alaska Natives to the history of whaling. Contains exhibits, artifact collections, library & room where traditional crafts are demonstrated & taught. |
| Juneau-Douglas City Museum | Juneau | Juneau | Southeast | Local history | Exhibits include gold mining, hydropower, skiing, outdoor recreation, fishing, politics and city history |
| Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center | Kenai | Kenai Peninsula | Southcentral | Multiple | Website, operated by Arts Kenai, Alaskan Native, natural history, history, art |
| Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park | Skagway | Skagway | Southeast | Military | Includes Mascot Saloon museum, historic Moore House |
| Knik Museum | Wasilla | Matanuska-Susitna | Southcentral | Local history | Operated by the Wasilla-Knik Historical Society |
| Kodiak Maritime Museum | Kodiak | Kodiak Island | Southwest | Maritime | Website, located in Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park |
| Kodiak Military History Museum | Kodiak | Kodiak Island | Southwest | Military | WWII-era bunker and artifacts, history of Fort Abercrombie |
| Last Chance Mining Museum | Juneau | Juneau | Southeast | Mining | Former gold mining camp |
| Maxine & Jesse Whitney Museum | Valdez | Unorganized | Southcentral | Multiple | Natural history, Alaskan Native artifacts, formerly the Alaska Cultural Center, operated by Prince William Sound College |
| Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center | Juneau | Juneau | Southeast | Natural history | Exhibits about the Mendenhall Glacier |
| Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Multiple | Website, Alaskan Native culture, history and natural history of Interior Alaska |
| Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry | Wasilla | Matanuska-Susitna | Southcentral | Multiple | Website, transportation & industrial artifacts |
| Museum of the Aleutians | Unalaska | Unorganized | Southwest | Local history | Website, local history and culture |
| Museum of the North | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Multiple | Part of University of Alaska, art, history, culture, natural history |
| Northwest Arctic Heritage Center | Kotzebue | Northwest Arctic | Arctic Alaska | Multiple | Natural and cultural history of the Western Arctic National Parklands [3] [4] |
| Oscar Anderson House Museum | Anchorage | Anchorage | Southcentral | Historic house | Built in 1915 by early Anchorage resident Oscar Anderson & became the first wood-frame house in Anchorage. Completely restored to 1915 appearance. |
| Palmer Museum of History & Art | Palmer | Matanuska-Susitna | Southcentral | Multiple | website, local history, culture, art |
| Pedro Gold Dredge | Chicken | Unorganized | Interior | Mining | Historic mining dredge at Chicken Gold Camp & Outpost |
| Pioneer Aviation Museum | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Aviation | website, history of interior and arctic Alaskan aviation, located in Pioneer Park |
| Pioneer Park | Fairbanks | Fairbanks North Star | Interior | Multiple | 44-acre park, includes the Alaska Native Museum, Pioneer Museum, early 20th-century Kitty Hensley House, Tanana Valley Railroad Museum, SS Nenana , Wickersham House |
| Pratt Museum | Homer | Kenai Peninsula | Southcentral | Natural history | Local history, natural history, art, culture |
| Prince William Sound Museum | Whittier | Unorganized | Southcentral | Multiple | Website, WWII and Cold War military history of Alaska, 1964 earthquake |
| Seward Community Library & Museum | Seward | Kenai Peninsula | Southcentral | Local history | website |
| Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center | Haines | Haines | Southeast | Multiple | Website, history, art and blending of diverse cultures within the Chilkat Valley region |
| Sheldon Jackson Museum | Sitka | Sitka | Southeast | Alaskan Native | Alaskan Native artifacts |
| Simon Paneak Memorial Museum | Anaktuvuk Pass | North Slope | Arctic Alaska | Alaskan Native | website, history and culture of the Nunamiut Inupiat |
| Sitka Historical Museum | Sitka | Sitka | Southeast | Local history | Formerly the Isabel Miller Museum, focuses on Sitka's history from the Tlingit people, through the European explorations & Russian era & after. |
| Sitka National Historical Park | Sitka | Sitka | Southeast | Multiple | Includes Tlingit ethnographic items, Tlingit & Haida totem poles, Russian American historical & archaeological collections, 1843 period Russian Bishop's House |
| Skagway Museum and Archives | Skagway | Skagway | Southeast | Local history | [5] |
| Southeast Alaska Discovery Center | Ketchikan | Ketchikan Gateway | Southeast | Natural history | Visitor center for the Tongass National Forest, ecology, economy and culture of Southeast Alaska and its temperate rainforest ecosystems |
| Sullivan Roadhouse Historical Museum | Delta Junction | Unorganized | Interior | History | Early 20th-century roadhouse with period exhibits, photos [6] [7] |
| Talkeetna Historical Society Museum | Talkeetna | Matanuska-Susitna | Southcentral | Local history | Website |
| Tongass Historical Museum | Ketchikan | Ketchikan Gateway | Southeast | History | Website |
| Totem Heritage Center | Ketchikan | Ketchikan Gateway | Southeast | Alaskan Native | Traditional arts and crafts of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures |
| Trapper Creek Museum | Trapper Creek | Matanuska-Susitna | Southcentral | Local history | Website |
| Valdez Museum | Valdez | Unorganized | Southcentral | Local history | Website |
| Wrangell Museum | Wrangell | Wrangell | Southeast | Local history | Website |
| Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center | Bethel | Unorganized | Southwest | Alaskan Native | Local history of Yup’ik and Alaskan Athabaskan |
| Alaska SeaLife Center | Seward | Kenai Peninsula | Southcentral | Aquarium | https://www.alaskasealife.org/ |
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Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean lie to the north and the Pacific Ocean lies to the south. Technically a semi-exclave of the U.S., Alaska is the largest exclave in the world.
Northwest Arctic Borough is a borough located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,793, up from 7,523 in 2010. The borough seat is Kotzebue. The borough was formed on June 2, 1986.
Kotzebue or Qikiqtaġruk is a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the borough's seat, by far its largest community and the economic and transportation hub of the subregion of Alaska encompassing the borough. The population of the city was 3,102 as of the 2020 census, down from 3,201 in 2010.
The Iñupiat are a group of Indigenous Alaskans whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. Their current communities include 34 villages across Iñupiat Nunaat, including seven Alaskan villages in the North Slope Borough, affiliated with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; eleven villages in Northwest Arctic Borough; and sixteen villages affiliated with the Bering Straits Regional Corporation. They often claim to be the first people of the Kauwerak.
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Cape Krusenstern National Monument and the colocated Cape Krusenstern Archeological District is a U.S. National Monument and a National Historic Landmark centered on Cape Krusenstern in northwestern Alaska. The national monument was one of fifteen new National Park Service units designated by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980. It was initially declared a national monument under the authority of the Antiquities Act by President Jimmy Carter on December 1, 1978.
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As of 2020, Alaska has a population of 733,391.
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Rika's Landing Roadhouse, also known as Rika's Landing Site or the McCarty Roadhouse, is a roadhouse located at a historically important crossing of the Tanana River, in the Southeast Fairbanks Area, Alaska, United States. It is off mile 274.5 of the Richardson Highway in Big Delta.
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The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by Wells Fargo in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California that feature exhibits about the company's history. Some of the museums' displays include original stagecoaches, photographs, gold nuggets and mining artifacts, the Pony Express, telegraphs and historic bank artifacts. The museum was initially known as the Wells Fargo History Room when it opened in 1927 in San Francisco. In 1935 a museum was opened for public tours. The museum has been operating for nearly 60 years in its current location.
The 2020 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Alaska, concurrently with the nationwide presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan won re-election to a second term in office, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gross, the son of Avrum Gross, who ran as an independent candidate. John Wayne Howe, the nominee of the Alaskan Independence Party, was also on the ballot and finished a distant third.
The 2018 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska. In the primaries for recognized political parties, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separately. The winners of each respective primary for governor and lieutenant governor then become a joint ticket in the general election for their political party. Incumbent independent governor Bill Walker was running for re-election in what was originally a three-way race between Walker, Republican former state senator Mike Dunleavy, and Democratic nominee Mark Begich, a former U.S. Senator. However, Walker dropped out on October 19, 2018, and endorsed Begich. In spite of Walker dropping out, Dunleavy defeated Begich in what would become the only gubernatorial gain by a Republican candidate in 2018. Walker later unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Alaska in 2022.
Northwest Arctic Borough School District (NWABSD) is a school district headquartered in Kotzebue, Alaska.
