History of Alaska

HISTORY OF ALASKA
Anchorage Museum of
History and Art
Anchorage, AK
Visitors walk through a bird rookery to encounter a hunting Aleut in his kayak.
A scale model of a full village is to the right.

History of Alaska

Walk under a 30-foot-long hunting umiak and compare its size to the whales in the mural to its right.

History of Alaska

Compare the clash of cultures, and see what Native Alaskans and Westerners felt about the land.

History of Alaska

Today Alaska is an oil passageway, and a warming harbinger of climate change to come.

 

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