Juneau - Alaska State Museum

 
The Alaska State Museum in Juneau features permanent exhibits on Alaska's Native peoples, Natural History, The American Period (of Alaska's history), Russian America and the Children's Room. Temporary exhibits are also featured throughout the year.

The first floor features the ethnographic galleries where visitors can learn about the Aleut, Eskimo, Athabaskan and Northwest Coast peoples.

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The Aleut gallery has a notable collection of baskets woven from fine strips of beach grass. The Athabaskan display features an important collection of masks, arrows and snowshoes. The focus of the Eskimo gallery is a umiak (34 foot boat) along with hunting and fishing implements made of ivory, bone, wood and metal. The Northwest Coast Indians include Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian; they are represented by a clan house and housing artifacts.

Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million but not before it established a reign of almost 130 years of hunting and trading.
Address: Alaska State Museum, 395 Whittier Street, Juneau, AK 99801-1718, United States
Phone: 1 (907) 465-2901, Fax: 1 (907) 465-2976
Hours:
May 10 to September 22: 8:30am-5:30pm
September 23 to May 9: 10am-4pm; Closed: Sun, Mon
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), Memorial Day - USA (last Monday, May ), American Independance Day (July 4), Labor Day - USA (1st Monday, September), Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November ), Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Tips: Winter admission is $3.00. Open the first Friday of every month, September 23rd to mid-May, from 4:30 until 7pm - free admission.

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