Arctic Studies Center
 Inupiaq feast bowl, Wales, National Museum of the American Indian. On view in the exhibition Sharing Knowledge: Alaska Native Peoples and the Smithsonian Collections, planned for installation in the expanded Anchorage Museum in 2010. |
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. and Anchorage, Alaska
The Arctic Studies Center, established in 1988, is the only U. S. government program to have a special focus on northern cultural research and education. It has a permanent staff of four anthropologists. The Arctic Studies Center is located in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. An office for Alaskan research and outreach was established in 1994 through an affiliation with the Anchorage Museum Association. The Arctic Studies Center receives baseline federal funding, but its programs are supported principally through grants, gifts, and cooperative agreements. Program partners and supporters have included the National Science Foundation, National Park Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, other federal and Alaska state agencies, Alaska Native museums and corporations, the Nordic Council, and many others.
Alaska Native Collections
Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian
Anchorage:
Dr. Aron L. Crowell, Alaska Director
907-929-9207/ 343-6130 (FAX)/ E-mail: acrowell@anchoragemuseum.org
Washington, DC:
Dr. William W. Fitzhugh, Director202-357-2682 / 357-2684 (FAX)/ E-mail: fitzhugh_william@nmnh.si.edu
Link to the Arctic Studies Center Web Site: http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/
