Research

Educators can do research in the Museum Archives, located on the Museum's second floor, open weekday mornings in summer, and Tuesday through Friday mornings in winter, and afternoons by appointment.

The Library Collection
The Archives maintains a library of approximately 10,000 titles with the primary focus on history, ethnography and art of Alaska and the North. The reference collection includes art auction records, indexes and dictionaries. Historic maps of Alaska and historic building plans are also available. Circulation of library material is restricted to staff and volunteers, but, the general public is welcome to use the collection as a reference library or request books on inter-library loan. Most of the collection is accessible on OCLC and on-line with other Anchorage libraries at http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us.

The Artists' File
Archives staff gathers published information about past and present Alaska artists, maintaining paper files and a database of nearly 8300 names.

The Photo Collection
The Archives maintains a photo collection of approximately 350,000 images covering a broad range of topics in Alaska's history.

Contact the Archives
Phone: 907-343-6189 or 907-343-6191 or by email.