A Significant Collection

The museum's holdings include collections of Alaskan anthropological, biological, geological, historical, artistic, and educational significance. Over its 11 year history the museum has accumulated over 10,000 objects.

Significant individual donations to the museum include:

The Margaret Schoonover Collection (rocks, minerals, and artifacts).
The Ruth Briggs Collection (native artifacts, baskets and ivory carvings)
The Edward Smoot Collection (tropical sea shells)
The George Fennimore Collections (rocks and minerals)
The Larry Aumiller Collection (mammal skulls)
The Jim Prentiss Collection (economic minerals from SE Alaska)
The John Grega Collection (African animals)

A Growing Collection

The museum's humanities collections have grown since moving into our new home to include sculpture, illustrations, original paintings and drawings, photo images, maps and texts. The museum is currently creating a database of the various collections to be available online.

Our permanent displays presently consist of 4 Alaskan wildlife dioramas, numerous mounts of Alaskan birds and mammals, skeletal examples of moose, man, skulls and birds.

The museum's geological materials include rocks and minerals, vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, hadosaur skeleton cast, fossils, and models. Anthropological collections include artifacts from specific sites in the state, most notably the "Broken Mammoth" site.

As our database nears completion the museum's holdings will be available to the public online.