Museum Journal Archive - Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center

In Residence: Artist Bethlehem Shalom on Music, Fashion, and Material Inspiration

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Here's a look at some of the Anchorage Museum's 2022 acquisitions

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Our Top Virtual Programs of 2022

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What does climate change sound like?

Artist David Brame on Afrofuturism, Art, and Comic Inspiration

Urban Harvest: Making The Cut With Firewood

Urban Harvest: Combining traditional skills with modern-day lifestyles

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Kaasteen Jill Meserve on beadwork, humor, and cultural resilience

Unmasking Anchorage's Indigenous Culture

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Alaska Native Artists Re-Indigenize Downtown Anchorage Streetscape

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The Gift of Presence: Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich and Nuna (the Land)

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Sharing culture is community: A Q&A with Crystal Worl

Culture, Community, and Transformation: The Art of Indra Arriaga Delgado

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Quki/Golga Oscar on Authenticity, Clothing, and What it Means to be Yup’ik

Connecting Across Generations: The Work of Kimberly Fulton Orozco

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Can pandemic storytelling cure divided communities?

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Sequoya Hayes on art, wellness, and Black speculative worlds

Chatter Marks Podcast Reveals the Real Alaska, One Voice at a Time

Water Stories: Visual Poetics and Collective Voices

Portrait At Cape Nome

Sound and Story: Alexis Anoruk Sallee

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ARTIST Q&A: JUSTIN DEWOLF SHARES ON HIS "A.KINGDOM PROJECT"

New Thomas Planetarium programs offer private parties, home videos, and more

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Intern Helps Enhance the Museum’s Archives for Black Alaskans and Other Communities of Color

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Family History and Material Process: The Art of Theresa Woldstad

From ADN: ‘Borealis’ contemplates northern forests from new angles

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BOREAL FOREST REGION REVEALS OUR INTERCONNECTEDNESS WITH TREES

From ADN: ‘Counter Cartographies’ asks: How do we ‘map’ our lives on the land?

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We explore the link between land and graphic design during Anchorage Design Week 2021

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ARTISTS EXPLORE HOW LAND MAPPING AFFECTS POWER, CULTURE AND IDENTITY

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Reflecting on climate change in Alaska’s forests through the performing arts

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Anchorage Museum expanded the inclusivity and accessibility of its archives through a pilot internship program this past summer

Artist Hanna Sholl on Cultural Revitalization and the Role of Art as a Tool for Social Change

Indigenous artists in Alaska continue to grow formline art with the help of serigraph printing

FIRST FLOOR GALLERIES NAMED IN HONOR OF PATRICIA B. WOLF

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DECOLONIZING THROUGH VIRTUAL REPATRIATION: A NEW VISION OF COLLECTIONS ACCESS

From ADN: This Alaska art was made to be heard - not seen

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Mariza Ryce-Tovar on art, healing, and the natural world

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53 ways to enjoy the Anchorage Museum this summer

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Love, loss, and longing: Ellie Schmidt on relationships to land in climate crisis

Alaska's Black community reveals struggles and triumphs in new documentary

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Extra Tough Panel: Immigrant and Refugee Perspectives on Education

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Centering Black Narratives: The Art of Alyssa Quintyne

From ADN: Community collaboration enriches a new view of Black life in Alaska

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Teens take action: The work of addressing climate change during a pandemic

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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

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Serendipity: how some archival collections come to be

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Documenting and sharing Anchorage’s diverse communities

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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

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Future Ready: For the Anchorage Museum, the compass points forward

Art as a Mirror: Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn on reflecting strength and celebrating imperfection

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Kunaq Tahbone: On Rootedness and Revitalization

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Bridging Isolation: Reflections on virtual movement workshops for older adults during COVID

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Jenny Irene Miller: Photography As Protection and Celebration

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Artist Rebecca Lyon shares about her artwork "Counting On Liberty"

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Top 5 Reasons Virtual Summer Camp is Cool

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Like all institutions, we must do more to work for justice and change

Ethan Lauesen: Identity, Belonging, and Not Disappearing

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WE CAN ASPIRE TO CREATE A FUTURE WE DESPERATELY WANT TO FEEL AND FIND

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Fairbanks artist Tamara Wilson talks inspiration, fabrication, and life under pandemic

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Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion

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MASKS AND MARKETING UNDER PANDEMIC

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HOW VIRUS PATTERNS INSPIRED HUMAN DESIGN

A New Way to View Climate Change Downtown

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Contemporary Artists are Taking Inspiration from Environments of the Circumpolar North to Create Sound Art and Music

Musings About 90-Year-Old Grocery Receipts

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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

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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

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Renewing an Ancestral Art at Quinhagak: A Smithsonian Community Collaboration

We’re Developing a Film Project That Presents The History and Identity of Alaska

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Government of Canada announces plans for this year’s exploration of the Franklin wrecks

WE’RE CHANGING HOW WE TOUR VISITORS THROUGH OUR COLLECTIONS

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The Anchorage Piano Project

Judit Hersko Visualizes Science Through Art -- and Antarctica

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Signs of the Times: SEED Lab Artist Justin Guariglia Works in Words and Dialogue

SEED Lab Project Sowing Ideas

Welcome to NxN

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Earthquake Repairs to the Living our Cultures Exhibition

2019 North x North Summit and Festival

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Aging Creatively in the Arctic

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Creative Approaches to Civic Solutions

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We're Adding Food to the Ways in Which We Tell Alaska's Story

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Looking at Art through the Lens of Change

Subtly Subverting Dominant Narratives: Alison Marks

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The North Has a Musical Sound All Its Own

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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

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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

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Book Binge

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What Walrus and Polar Bear Have to Teach Us About Wisdom and Sustenance

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The Anchorage Museum Turns 50

What if museums were idea labs?

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Fossils and Cheeseburgers

REBECA MENDEZ EXPLORES LANDSCAPE, BOUNDARIES AND CULTURE

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ITINERANT SPANISH BOOKSTORE ENCOURAGES CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Erasing the Border is Possible

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Unsettled: Alaska Embodies the Spirit of the Greater West

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WALKING AWAY FROM THE WHALE

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NEW DOWNTOWN DESIGN DISTRICT TO BRING DIVERSITY AND COLLABORATION

Furry Fandom

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ANONYMOUS NO MORE

A Chance Donation Helps Fill a Gap in the National Archives

MORE ABOUT BOXES OF MYSTERY IN THE HOME STRETCH

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CONSERVATOR’S CORNER: KELLY HELMET

CONSERVATOR’S CORNER: YUP’IK FISH SKIN BAG

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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

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Brave Souls, Broken Axles

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Living Our Cultures through Material Traditions

Amy Meissner’s Needle and Myth Workshops in Her Own Words

Arctic Hip-Hop Superstars: A Curated Conversation

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What people can do with literacy

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It’s a season to be thankful

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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

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“BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY” TO “MAKE IT SO

Anchorage Design Weekend 2017

Augmented Reality and Art

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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"

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From Preservation to Exhibition

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Q&A with sound artist Matthew Burtner

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The Arctic Arts Summit

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Once upon a Twitter feed…

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Adaptation: John Grade in the Arctic

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North by North festival

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Mapping Anchorage

North by North

Our Unbound Series

New Year, New Look: Refreshing the Atrium

Telling our collective stories through film

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Up Here: North as Place

DEEP FOREST STORIES

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Where the heck is the art?

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Remembering Teri Rofkar

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Caring for the Collection through the Collections Committee

A Bias for Action

Visual Conversations

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Simon Menner and the Power of Invisibility

Member Feature

Polar Nights: Your Weekend Launch Pad

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For the Love of Celluloid

Seeing the world through many layers

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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

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Building a Better Future

URBAN WELL-BEING

PEOPLE-POWERED

LOCAL HUB WITH A GLOBAL FUTURE

Living Room: Embracing the you-seum

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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

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Bank of America renews Museums on Us for 2016

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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

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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

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Our Story

Surdna Foundation gives artists a voice

Living in the Age of Airplanes

Material Traditions: Voices from Cedar

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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

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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

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Live stream of Picture the Arctic 9 to 11 a.m. Alaska Time, Tuesday, Sept. 1

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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

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Da-ka-xeen Mehner's Intervention

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Centennial Exhibitions

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Artist-in-Residence Derek Coté

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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

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Programs create rich experiences for learning

Arts organizations hope global collaboration will give voice to the North through art

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King of Norway visits Anchorage Museum and opens “Polar Night” exhibition

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Think Up Here: Curated Conversations

Alaska Teen Media Institute embarks on Beluga Whale Film Project

Museum Interventions

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Message from Anchorage Museum Director and CEO Julie Decker - May, 2015

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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

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

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Tell Your Alaska Stories

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Lending a Hand In Juneau

Collections Committee Seeks Members

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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..."

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Anchorage Exhibits Nominated for Museum Industry Awards

Ambitious Expedition Launches to Study Marine Debris Crisis

Flagship Gallery gets a Makeover

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NEA Awards $50,000 to Museum for Projects on Northern Life

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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

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Supporting the Mission

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We're Deepening our Commitment to Serving Our Community by Furthering the Study of Arctic Issues

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The artists behind "To Become A Person"

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Robin Lovelace: Modern-Day Myth Maker

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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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