Recent Acquisitions

Hunting Visor, Edgar Otis	Untitled, Kivetoruk Moses	Untitled, Kivetoruk Moses	Untitled, Kivetoruk Moses

The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center collects art and artifacts from the North: Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and Siberia. Virtually all acquisitions are donations; the Museum could not continue to grow without gifts great and small.

Recent donations have included American clothing and toys used in Anchorage, contemporary Alaska artwork, skis to represent outdoor recreation, a collection of old field gear used by the U.S. Geological Survey, a watercolor by Eustace Ziegler, and several large collections of Alaska Native artifacts and contemporary crafts.

The Museum is currently making plans for a major addition that will increase its exhibition space. The Alaska Gallery, the Museum's primary exhibit on the Native cultures of the North and the history of the North, will be a major focus of this addition. The Museum will be actively collecting material that represents mining, fishing, lumbering, oil development, the military, tourism, the Native cultures, and the overall history of the North.

Anchorage Museum staff would be happy to discuss possible donations with you, or to communicate with you about Northern pieces in your possession which you would like to know more about. Please contact Walter A. Van Horn, Curator of Collections by email or at 907-343-6182 or by fax at 907-343-6149.