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The Juneau-Douglas City Museum is located at the corner of 4th and Main, opposite the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. It occupies a building which was built in 1950–51 to house the Juneau Memorial Library. It is a two-story Classical Revival structure built out of concrete with red marble trim elements.
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.
Pages in category "Museums in Juneau, Alaska" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Juneau-Douglas City Museum; L. Last Chance Mining Museum; M.
The Douglas Public Library is part of the Juneau Public Library System. Douglas has a small commercial core with several restaurants and bars, a gas station and the Perseverance Theatre, Alaska's only professional theater company. The town’s population has dropped over the years but recently is up to about 3,000 people, or close to ten ...
Location of Juneau in Alaska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Juneau, Alaska. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Juneau, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the ...
The House of Wickersham, also known as the Wickersham State Historic Site, is a historic house at 213 7th Street in the Chicken Ridge area of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is a historic house museum operated by the state of Alaska , memorializing the life of James Wickersham (1857-1939), an influential political leader in Alaska in the ...
The Juneau-Douglas Bridge connects the Juneau mainland with Douglas Island. No roads connect Juneau to the rest of North America; ferries allow access to the road network. There is a lack of places to build a road. A route to the east would fail due to an icefield the size of Rhode Island separating Juneau from Atlin, British Columbia.
The Glory Hole, 2012 Miners working in the Glory Hole, circa 1900s. In 1880, prospectors Joseph 'Joe' Juneau and Richard Harris discovered gold in Silver Bow Basin.This brought waves of prospectors to the region, including John Treadwell, whose first move was to purchase a lode claim on Douglas Island from Pierre Joseph Erussard ("French Pete") on September 13, 1881.