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53 ways to enjoy the Anchorage Museum this summer
Love, loss, and longing: Ellie Schmidt on relationships to land in climate crisis
Alaska's Black community reveals struggles and triumphs in new documentary
Extra Tough Panel: Immigrant and Refugee Perspectives on Education
Centering Black Narratives: The Art of Alyssa Quintyne
Teens take action: The work of addressing climate change during a pandemic
Five online resources to engage your learners at home
Rejoy Armamento: Honoring working women's labor with street art
Emma Hildebrand: art as a process of connection and care
Serendipity: how some archival collections come to be
Documenting and sharing Anchorage’s diverse communities
Innovation and adaptation: Artist Jennifer Angaiak Wood on contemporary Yup’ik mask-making
Rebecca Chol: Artist and leader, from South Sudan to Anchorage
The Top 5 Anchorage Museum Blog Posts Of 2020
Future Ready: For the Anchorage Museum, the compass points forward
Art as a Mirror: Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn on reflecting strength and celebrating imperfection
Kunaq Tahbone: On Rootedness and Revitalization
Bridging Isolation: Reflections on virtual movement workshops for older adults during COVID
Jenny Irene Miller: Photography As Protection and Celebration
Artist Rebecca Lyon shares about her artwork "Counting On Liberty"
Top 5 Reasons Virtual Summer Camp is Cool
Like all institutions, we must do more to work for justice and change
Ethan Lauesen: Identity, Belonging, and Not Disappearing
WE CAN ASPIRE TO CREATE A FUTURE WE DESPERATELY WANT TO FEEL AND FIND
Fairbanks artist Tamara Wilson talks inspiration, fabrication, and life under pandemic
Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion
MASKS AND MARKETING UNDER PANDEMIC
HOW VIRUS PATTERNS INSPIRED HUMAN DESIGN
A New Way to View Climate Change Downtown
Contemporary Artists are Taking Inspiration from Environments of the Circumpolar North to Create Sound Art and Music
Musings About 90-Year-Old Grocery Receipts
Stop-motion films reclaim Indigenous history, language and culture in museum’s new theater space
Nighttime Art Installation Illuminates Climate Change Throughout Downtown Anchorage
WE’RE EXPLORING CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH SOME MAJOR PROJECTS IN 2020
OLDER ADULTS FIND CREATIVE EXPRESSION THROUGH MOVEMENT AND DANCE
Anchorage Printmaking Collective Finds a Niche Downtown
My Mark, My City and Design Week
Landscape, climate and community converge through Hghu Hghazdatl (They All Gathered)
Temporary Artworks Hope to Spark Conversations Around Landscape, Climate and Community
Curating the Summer Camp Experience: What Do Kids Really Get Out of Summer Camp?
We Are Interested in the Future of Northern Places
Renewing an Ancestral Art at Quinhagak: A Smithsonian Community Collaboration
We’re Developing a Film Project That Presents The History and Identity of Alaska
Government of Canada announces plans for this year’s exploration of the Franklin wrecks
WE’RE CHANGING HOW WE TOUR VISITORS THROUGH OUR COLLECTIONS
The Anchorage Piano Project
Judit Hersko Visualizes Science Through Art -- and Antarctica
Signs of the Times: SEED Lab Artist Justin Guariglia Works in Words and Dialogue
SEED Lab Project Sowing Ideas
Welcome to NxN
Earthquake Repairs to the Living our Cultures Exhibition
2019 North x North Summit and Festival
Aging Creatively in the Arctic
Creative Approaches to Civic Solutions
Object Is
We're Adding Food to the Ways in Which We Tell Alaska's Story
Looking at Art through the Lens of Change
Subtly Subverting Dominant Narratives: Alison Marks
The North Has a Musical Sound All Its Own
Viewing Art with Your Ears and Objects with Your Hands
OUR MUSEUM AND OUR COMMUNITY AFTER THE NOV. 30 EARTHQUAKE
Polar Lab - Why we need big ideas and a strong investment in artistic practice
SEED Lab: Solutions for Energy and Equity through Design
Exploring Art & Wilderness
SEEING THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY THROUGH ART
Great Design Should Introduce Us to New Ways of Thinking
Book Binge
What Walrus and Polar Bear Have to Teach Us About Wisdom and Sustenance
The Anchorage Museum Turns 50
What if museums were idea labs?
Fossils and Cheeseburgers
REBECA MENDEZ EXPLORES LANDSCAPE, BOUNDARIES AND CULTURE
ITINERANT SPANISH BOOKSTORE ENCOURAGES CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
Erasing the Border is Possible
Unsettled: Alaska Embodies the Spirit of the Greater West
WALKING AWAY FROM THE WHALE
NEW DOWNTOWN DESIGN DISTRICT TO BRING DIVERSITY AND COLLABORATION
Furry Fandom
ANONYMOUS NO MORE
A Chance Donation Helps Fill a Gap in the National Archives
MORE ABOUT BOXES OF MYSTERY IN THE HOME STRETCH
CONSERVATOR’S CORNER: KELLY HELMET
CONSERVATOR’S CORNER: YUP’IK FISH SKIN BAG
CONSERVATOR’S CORNER: RECORDER
PUNK NANUK INUA BY LAWRENCE JAMES BECK
A SECOND BOX OF MYSTERY: AMY MEISSNER’S INHERITANCE PROJECT
Unbound Book Club
SENSORY FRIENDLY MONDAY AT THE MUSEUM
SUSTAINABILITY, CULTURE AND HISTORY COMBINE IN THE MUSEUM’S URBAN HOMESTEADING SERIES
FINDING ADVENTURE THROUGH THE PHOTOS OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S ELITE EXPLORERS
Box of Mystery
Brave Souls, Broken Axles
Living Our Cultures through Material Traditions
Amy Meissner’s Needle and Myth Workshops in Her Own Words
Arctic Hip-Hop Superstars: A Curated Conversation
What people can do with literacy
It’s a season to be thankful
Q&A with artist David Pettibone
Vision & Voice: Nikole Hannah-Jones
64,000 chopsticks, 2,000 carnations and some coffee cup stains: Unconventional portraits and the art of Red Hong Yi
“BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY” TO “MAKE IT SO
Anchorage Design Weekend 2017
Augmented Reality and Art
Welcome to Our North
Neighbors
Northern by Design
Mushroom mania: Three places to forage for fungi in the museum
Unsettled
NORTHERN INDIGENOUS HIP-HOP: "WE UP"
From Preservation to Exhibition
Q&A with sound artist Matthew Burtner
The Arctic Arts Summit
Once upon a Twitter feed…
Adaptation: John Grade in the Arctic
North by North festival
Mapping Anchorage
North by North
Our Unbound Series
New Year, New Look: Refreshing the Atrium
Telling our collective stories through film
Up Here: North as Place
DEEP FOREST STORIES
Where the heck is the art?
Remembering Teri Rofkar
Gala 2016
Caring for the Collection through the Collections Committee
A Bias for Action
Visual Conversations
Simon Menner and the Power of Invisibility
Member Feature
Polar Nights: Your Weekend Launch Pad
For the Love of Celluloid
Seeing the world through many layers
State of the Museum: August 2016
Power of Place
Live stream of John Luther Adams lecture 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2
Live stream of Curated Conversations: Cultivating in the North 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19
Cultivating happiness
Building a Better Future
URBAN WELL-BEING
PEOPLE-POWERED
LOCAL HUB WITH A GLOBAL FUTURE
Living Room: Embracing the you-seum
Food for Thought
Gala: IN•VISIBLE
Building the Future One Block at a Time
Family experiences are on us
Behind-the-Scenes: Conservation
Your contributions fuel exploration
Science creates curiosity
Encouraging critical thinking skills
Moving beyond traditional learning
Science is key to understanding the North
Mentoring Youth through Science
Science in the Museum Shop
Construction begins on new wing and Art of the North galleries
A new Alaska Gallery blends the past with the present
Indigenous artists and curators attend Arctic Frontiers conference in Norway
Curated Conversations
Our contemporary role is to curate conversations
Grants in Action
Portraits of Place: The Arctic in Photographs
Thank you for your feedback
You Help Us Tell the True Story of the North
Bank of America renews Museums on Us for 2016
John Kailukiak wins Juror’s Choice Award of ‘All Alaska Biennial’ Exhibition
STEM Café: Discovering the possibilities of STEM careers at the Anchorage Museum
Future Tense
40 Below
Message from Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - November 2015
Van Gogh Alive
Living Alaska: A Decade of Collecting Contemporary Art for Alaska Museums
100 Snapshots
Jeroen Toirkens
What’s Hot in the Shop: Cup’ik dolls
Winter Up Here
Our Story
Surdna Foundation gives artists a voice
Living in the Age of Airplanes
Material Traditions: Voices from Cedar
Recent Acquisitions
Animal Science: Turtles in Discovery Center
The Anchorage Museum brings Indigenous artists to the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland
Live stream of Curated Conversations: Edges
Van Gogh Alive — The Experience
Out of the Box
Urban Interventions: Tupik Mi
Message from Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - September 2015
Check out our new look
Live stream of Picture the Arctic 9 to 11 a.m. Alaska Time, Tuesday, Sept. 1
Live stream of Curated Conversations
Shop Artist Profile: Susan Serna
Anchorage Museum hosts Arctic programming during President Obama’s visit to Alaska
Museum's Polar Lab wins NEA Grant
Da-ka-xeen Mehner's Intervention
Centennial Exhibitions
Artist-in-Residence Derek Coté
In Memoriam
Interventions
Message form Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - July, 2015
Light: Beyond the Bulb
Material Traditions: Ivory Carving
Cloud Cover engages youth with technology
On Ice
On the Trail of Yakutat Ancestors
State of Fluctuation
Urban Interventions: Skate Art
Programs create rich experiences for learning
Arts organizations hope global collaboration will give voice to the North through art
King of Norway visits Anchorage Museum and opens “Polar Night” exhibition
Think Up Here: Curated Conversations
Alaska Teen Media Institute embarks on Beluga Whale Film Project
Museum Interventions
Camera Obscura
Message from Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - May, 2015
1houseN
Think UP HERE: A Series of Presentations and Conversations | 2015-2016
Michael Conti: Air Hockey (Gold)
Polar Lab
Message form Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - March, 2015
Spark!Lab: Invention and the Smithsonian Institution
Anchorage School District Art Exhibition
Supporting the Mission
Anchorage Museum Begins Designing New History Gallery Slated For 2017
Message from Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - January, 2015
Experience the "Eureka!" moment of invention with Spark!Lab
Northern innovation: Design UP HERE with the Cabin Fever Design Challenge
Supporting the Mission: Collecting in the North
Swanson wins Juror’s Choice Award
Artists in the Arctic: John Grade
Scan Home revives volunteer lounge
Encounters: Re-envisioning the Alaska Gallery
Artists in the Arctic: Annesofie Norn
Tell Your Alaska Stories
Lending a Hand In Juneau
Collections Committee Seeks Members
Adkins Exhibition Cancelled
PUTTING NAMES TO FACES
Anchorage Museum Stars in Film Premiere
Anchorage Museum Selects Julie Decker as new CEO
LIGHT IT UP AT LIGHTS OUT
ANNOUNCING WINNERS OF EARTH, FIRE AND FIBRE XXIX
"You will not see anything cooler in 2013..."
Anchorage Exhibits Nominated for Museum Industry Awards
Ambitious Expedition Launches to Study Marine Debris Crisis
Flagship Gallery gets a Makeover
NEA Awards $50,000 to Museum for Projects on Northern Life
Search Begins for New Anchorage Museum Director
Anchorage Museum Gala: Reimagine Elegance
Marine Debris Exhibit Receives $90,000 in Grants
The Things We Make: Alaska Native Art in the 21st Century
National Geographic Live Coming to Anchorage
Alaska Gallery: Re-Imagined Exhibit Debuts in 2017
Anchorage Museum Becomes First Smithsonian Affiliate in Alaska
Totem Tune-Up
We're Deepening our Commitment to Serving Our Community by Furthering the Study of Arctic Issues
The artists behind "To Become A Person"
Robin Lovelace: Modern-Day Myth Maker
Tlingit artist Rachel Martin on excavating personal histories and cultural legacies
Colleen Firmin Thomas on painting as a process of reflection and transformation
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