The Alaska State Museum is a 32,000 object-strong treasure trove of interesting Native artefacts, fine art, and natural history specimens.

The ground floor explores the rich past and present of Alaska’s diverse Native peoples.
the galleries exhibit rarities such as a belt fashioned from some 200 caribou mandibles and baskets thousands of years old, as well as artefacts of exceptional quality.

The ramp to the second floor circles around a two-storey model of a tree topped by an immense bald eagle nest, complete with piped-in calls. The second floor houses some natural history exhibits, but mostly it is devoted to the state’s post-European-contact human history, particularly the Russian era.

The American period galleries examine in great detail the development of the state’s natural resources through exhibits on mining, logging, fishing, and oil exploration.