Current Exhibitions

As part of the North x North Reimagined Festival, visit the lawn of the Anchorage Museum from Monday night, September 14 through the night of Sunday, September 20, to view Haustoria, a light and sound installation by artist Annie Mitchell.

From snowmachines and kick sleds to adapted winter gear and equipment, Snow Flyers celebrates decades of Northern ingenuity for survival, sport and transportation.

The Anchorage Museum’s Aperture project brings multiple exhibitions and artists together with public programming in a year-long series that testifies to the power of images. This project demonstrates how photography and video may offer new views of Northern place and people. 

Alaska is home to diverse cultures and tattooing traditions. Inuit tattoo has been practiced in Alaska for millennia by Iñupiat and Yup’ik women. Colonization suppressed traditional tattooing, but a new generation of Indigenous women are revitalizing and restoring the practice.

The archival photographs and camera equipment in this collection spanning the 20th century show how photographic technologies have changed and shaped the way we create and consume pictures and how we view Alaska's history and its future.

Temporary installations throughout Anchorage, posing questions about and connecting us to the natural world. Shelters are located on the Anchorage Museum lawn, the 5^th Avenue parking garage roof, SEED Lab parking lot, Chanstnu Muldoon Park, The Gardens at Bragaw, and Kiwanis Fish Creek Park through November and feature images by multiple artists examining the Northern landscape. The installations will be in place through November 2020.

Created to Hold Power (Intellectual Property) is a digital solo exhibition of new works by Nicholas Galanin.

For the past four years, Alaska photographer Kerry Tasker has followed surfers out onto the silty waters of Turnagain Arm to document their idiosyncratic lifestyle. He has witnessed the growth of a community and a culture, composed around a sole purpose—surfing the tide.

Photojournalist Ash Adams and Iñupiaq writer Laureli Ivanoff examine Indigenous coming of age in rural Alaska.

Illustrations by Anchorage-based artist Ted Kim from the Anchorage Museum’s Dena’ina language book "Nkenaghch’: Good Words to Never Forget."

Weeks Feel Like Days, Months Feel Like Years is a participatory audio artwork developed by Paul Walde in which performers are invited to interpret a series of five text-based scores that prompt responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A virtual exhibition by artist Mary Mattingly, that proposes a mobile and wearable future through ideas of shelter.  Based on an assumption that more people will lack access to basic resources, the Wearable Homes project proposes both an absurd dystopic commentary about what consumption could look like, but also possible solutions.

Arctic Remix considers how Indigenous technologies have informed, inspired, or anticipated modern-day design and technology innovations. Objects highlighted in this exhibition point to what has changed, what has been remixed, and what has stayed the same.  

A pivotal art form of the last 100 years, film is a powerful medium for telling stories of people and place. Circumpolar Cinema shares a selection of films by artists from the Circumpolar North.

The Alaska Mural Project (AMP), in collaboration with Anchorage Downtown Partnership and the Anchorage Museum, will work with artists Will Kozloff, Crystal Worl, Ash Adams, Ted Kim, and Justin DeWolf on murals to be installed in Anchorage’s downtown...

Can design help combat homelessness? With evictions a serious issue nationally and extreme weather events displacing thousands, houselessness is one of society’s biggest challenges. Through the project Houseless, the Anchorage Museum invites visitors to consider ways design can contribute to solutions.

Through an array of images and audio interviews, infographics and forward-thinking design, Evicted offers an immersive experience for understanding the crisis of low-income renter eviction, how it developed and how communities may respond.

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...