Museums: Anchorage

Address
301 W Northern Lights
Anchorage, AK 99503
(907) 265-2834

Museum hours
Monday through Friday
Noon to 4:00 p.m.
(closed on bank holidays)

Free admission

The Alaskan Heritage Museum celebrates the diverse cultural heritage of the many indigenous people of Alaska. Displaying a large collection of Alaskan Native artifacts and fine art by Alaskan artists, this is the largest private collection of its kind in Alaska.

Exhibits include:

• More than 900 Native artifacts and ivory carvings
• Over 80 hand-woven Alaska Native baskets
• Many examples of traditional clothing
• A Bering Sea kayak covered in traditional seal skin
• Paintings by Alaskan artists Sydney Laurence, Fred Machetanz, Eustace Ziegler and others.
• A large collection of historic Alaskan business tokens

This collection also highlights Wells Fargo history in the Alaskan Gold Rush era with a two-thirds scale stagecoach.