Anchorage Museum

After we drove back from Ship Creek, we grabbed a quick bite and then walked into town, using the shortcut the campground manager told us about … through the back of the property. We had a short, but steep hike up … which we could have avoided had we gone in the opposite direction and found the steps leading up instead.

When we were in Anchorage in May, we wanted to go to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center with Deniz. Unfortunately, the day we set aside for the museum, it was closed. And when another opportunity came up, we opted to hike instead. So, today that’s where we went. So glad we did.

With the TourSaver BOGO, we only paid $20 for the two of us … which turned out to be a bargain since the museum was so much bigger than we anticipated … and so much more enjoyable and interesting.

[In addition to recouping the cost of the TourSaver app a while back, I am now $225 ahead of the game. Not bad considering that except for the WRST flightseeing none of the big ticket items were not of interest to us.]

The museum has three permanent exhibitions. First — Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska … consisting of glass cases filled with items from the Smithsonian. Second — Alaska … which tells the story of the 49th state from multiple perspectives, “… reflecting the ingenuity, technology, ways of knowing and intimate understanding of the landscape that have allowed people to survive and thrive across the North.” Third — Art of the North … which had some great paintings … and some pieces that were a little odd.

There were several temporary exhibits as well … two of which caught our attention. One of them focused on the women of the north and the other was a retrospective of the art of Inupiaq artist Ronald Senungetuk (1933-2020) who “… was a world-renowned sculptor, silversmith and woodcarver who blended ancestral Inupiaq forms with modern concepts and materials.”

Our afternoon at the museum goes into the books as a definite highlight of this trip.Läs mer