Anchorage Museum of History & Art

The Anchorage Museum of History & Art at Rasmuson Center is located in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska. This most prestigious of Anchorage attractions is a world-class cultural center for the community and its visitors that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets cultural the art and historical artifacts of the state. The Anchorage Museum’s programs and activities work with groups, individuals and organizations to stimulate and aid in the activities of artists, historians, anthropologists as well as other allied professionals.

The Anchorage Museum opened in 1968 with an exhibition of 60 borrowed Alaska paintings, and a collection of 2,500 historic and ethnographic objects loaned from the local historical society. Today the permanent collection boasts 17,500 objects, an education collection of roughly 2,000 artifacts and over 350,000 historical photographs. More than 20 traveling exhibits from around the world are also displayed at the Museum every year. The Museum is also home to the 1st regional office of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History Arctic Studies Center.