Permanent Exhibits

Anchorage
1910-1935
On permanent display in the Alaska Gallery
Interact with the past and learn about the present with a new touch-screen installation transforming the popular Anchorage Pioneer Families panel exhibit into an interactive exhibit and Web site. Located in the Alaska Gallery, Anchorage: 1910 to 1935 allows visitors to view photographs and read stories of Anchorage residents who molded this community in the early years of the 20th century.

The project was initiated by the late John Bagoy, author of Legends and Legacies: Anchorage 1910 - 1935, and a founding member of the Cook Inlet Historical Society, one of Alaska's oldest regional historical organizations. This exhibit is sponsored by the Cook Inlet Historical Society with a grant from the Rasmuson Foundation.

Visit the website, www.alaskahistory.org/anchorage1910/

Art of the North

The Anchorage Museum Association has a wide-ranging collection of art that reflects Alaska and the circumpolar North. Seven galleries on the Museum's ground floor are devoted to this collection. These galleries include:

• Early views of Alaska
• Life in the North
• Paintings by Sydney Laurence, perhaps Alaska's best known artist
• Portraits, both traditional and unconventional
• Landscape paintings
• Works by contemporary Alaska Native artists

The galleries slowly change as the museum adds new works, or as sensitive works are rotated off display.