We visited two museums in Anchorage that seemed suspiciously similar to each other (and then later to museums we visited in Fairbanks), the Alaska Native Heritage Center (ANHC) and the Anchorage Museum. Both focused on Alaska, with the ANHC more focused on Alaska’s cultural groups, and the Anchorage Museum covering the people, along with the Alaskan environments.
The Anchorage Museum is very large – 170,000 square feet with 25,000 objects! – whereas the ANHC seemed to be in transition, with lots of empty space. I think if we had been there “in season” there also would have been performances and demonstrations to enhance the experience.
The cover photo is Pack Train Near Mt. McKinley, by Eustace Ziegler, c. 1930. We saw quite a few Ziegler and Sydney Laurence paintings that we enjoyed, both artists previously unknown to us.