Current Exhibitions

It Will Not Be The Same, But It Might Be Beautiful is a multimedia project by artist and researcher Nina Elder investigating change by focusing on objects that have been exhausted by use and transformed by time. 

This exhibition, told through archival photos and ephemera, showcases the richness and resilience of Black lives in Alaska.

John Grade's Spark project explores how wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense, and their impact on our lives and landscapes. The project begins with this sculpture and continues with a series of public conversations. What we might learn from forest fire ecology?

Counter Cartographies: Living the Land presents contemporary artworks that examine our relationship to land, proposing alternative ways of thinking about and experiencing the landscape around us.

Paola Pivi's Lies, Lies, Lies is an immersive, multi-media installation composed of dozens of television screens and a sound system, installed on the museum’s fourth floor. Visitors experience the artwork by entering a structure made of screens, which surround them on all sides, above, and below.

Stuart Hyatt’s Stations installation examines knowing about the land through sound. The project invites questioning of western modalities of mapping, which so often privilege the visual, by encouraging listening as a way of knowing and making sense of our world.

Christina Seely's DISSONANCE and DISTURBANCE address complexities of both built and natural global systems, highlighting increasingly tenuous relationships between humans and the planet.  

The Borealis project is supported by the Anchorage Museum’s Polar Lab Program. For Borealis, photographer Jeroen Toirkens and journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius visited boreal forests around the Circumpolar North, ending in Alaska in 2019, in search of the stories...

Alaska River Time engages a network of glacial and spring rivers to regulate a new kind of clock, which speeds up and slows down with the waters.