Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list of museums in Alaska is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Anchorage Museum is a large art, history, ethnography, ecology and science museum located in a modern building in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska. [1] It is dedicated to studying and exploring the land, peoples, art and history of Alaska. The museum displays material from its permanent collection, along with regular visiting exhibitions.
The Pratt Museum is a regional natural history museum located in Homer, Alaska, with exhibits exploring life around Kachemak Bay in South Central Alaska. The museum's mission is to preserve "the stories of the Kachemak Bay region", through "collections, exhibits, and programs in culture, science, and art". [ 1 ]
Richard Louis Proenneke (/ ˈ p r ɛ n ə k iː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
Alaska is the least densely populated state, and one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world, at 1.2 inhabitants per square mile (0.46/km 2), with the next state, Wyoming, at 5.8 inhabitants per square mile (2.2/km 2). [70] Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, and the tenth wealthiest (per capita income). [71]
Artifacts from the state's Russian colonial eras, state and political history, fine art (including contemporary art), natural history, industry and trades can also be found on exhibit. [1] After a $139 million renovation, [when?] it re-opened after a two-year and three-month closure. The museum closed temporarily on February 28, 2014, for the ...
Icebreakers: Alaska's Most Innovative Artists. International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2001. ISBN 978-0-9670709-0-2. Fair, Susan W. Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity. University of Alaska Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-889963-79-2. Jackinsky, Nadia. "Four Exhibits of Alaska Native Art: Women Artists Breaking Boundaries."
West elevation of the library building. Charlie Parr (1918–2000) was the library's first Arctic bibliographer and later a member of the state house and state senate.. The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library (often referred to as Rasmuson Library) is the largest research library in the U.S. state of Alaska, housing just over one million volumes.