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- 1. ANCHORAGE MUSEUM C U R A T I N G C O N V E R S A T I O N S
- 2. The Anchorage Museum connects people, expands perspectives and encourages global dialogue about the North and its distinct environment.
- 3. CONNECTING PEOPLE • More 200,000 visitors each year, including 16,000 school children • Programs indoors and out, for families, young and young at heart • Classes, workshops, free days, First Fridays, Polar Nights, Family Explore
- 4. EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES • More than 20 exhibitions a year • Artist and museum interventions • Smithsonian Spark!Lab Did you know? The museum’s permanent collection holds more than 26,000 objects, 575,000 historical photographs, 14,000 publications and 800 maps
- 5. QUIZ 1 What birthday is Anchorage celebrating this year?
- 6. CELEBRATING ANCHORAGE CENTENNIAL • City Limits • Home Field Advantage: Baseball in the Far North • 100 Snapshots • Museum installations • Centennial programs
- 7. ARCTIC AMBITIONS Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage
- 9. Coming this fall to the Anchorage Museum
- 10. ENCOURAGING DIALOGUE ABOUT THE NORTH • Exhibitions on Northern cultures and landscape • Curated conversations about food security, representation and the commodification of culture • Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center
- 11. ARTISTS IN THE ARCTIC
- 12. A LOOK AHEAD • Up Here: The Arctic at the Center of the World |Summer 2016 • Unipkaaġusiksuġuvik (the place of the future/ancient) | Fall 2016 • Curated Conversations | Fall 2016 • Camouflage and Other Markings of Concealment and Disruption| Fall 2016 • New Alaska Gallery | Fall 2017 • East wing expansion | 2017
- 13. GET INVOLVED • Volunteer your time • Participate in our programs • Make a donation • Become a member anchoragemuseum.org | Share your story @anchoragemuseum
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- How many have been to the museum? How many have been to the museum since the expansion? This year? This month? The Anchorage Museum is the largest museum in the state, with more than 170,000 square feet of indoor galleries and public space. DISCOVERY CENTER In this area, visitors can explore earth, life and physical science through 80 hands-on exhibits. Displays spark intellectual curiosity and put scientific concepts into an Alaska context. THOMAS PLANETARIUM The planetarium offers a fascinating way to learn about astronomy, the Northern Lights and more and is home to a wide variety of interactive demonstrations, educational programs and films. MUSEUM SHOP The shop carries authentic Alaska Native art, contemporary crafts, books and gifts inspired by the museum’s collections. The shop was voted one of the 10 best places to buy authentic Alaska Native art in an Anchorage Daily News readers’ poll. MUSE RESTAURANT The elegant and contemporary restaurant Muse offers fresh, handcrafted Alaska cuisine, in a vibrant downtown setting.
- Great for visiting friends and family, yes, but also great for locals and people living in Alaska and the circumpolar North The Anchorage Museum is recognized as a leading center for scholarship, engagement, and investigation of Alaska and the North. Image by Tim Remick is of Derek Cote, an artist in residence who is working with a composer to develop music based on sounds in Alaska
- Lunch on the Lawn: Tuesdays from 11:30 to 1:30 in summer Family explore and toddler time for young families to learn more about a specific topic We improve Alaskans’ quality of life. We tell important stories, helping Alaskans understand and appreciate their history, culture and diversity. We offer an informal learning path, contributing to Alaska’s educated, creative and innovative culture. Family Explore: Baseball 10:30 to 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, August 15 The Anchorage Museum invites families to experience the museum in a new way. Immerse yourself in a museum exhibition through fun activities, gallery games and lively discussion. Each month brings a different theme. In August, Family Explore focuses on the all time favorite summer past time of baseball with the Home Field Advantage exhibition. Recommended for families with children ages 6-12, and their caregivers. Limit on participants per session. First come, first served. Included with admission
- Example from last year’s major winter exhibition: Brick by Brick about LEGO toys and bricks. This is “Yellow” by New York artist Nathan Sawaya who has had his world displayed all over the world. Spark!Lab Smithsonian encourages kids and families to explore their inventive creativity — to create, innovate, collaborate and problem-solve. Activities invite visitors to tinker, invent, and conduct science experiments. This Anchorage Museum organized exhibition explores the creative potential of LEGO® toys and bricks. The exhibition features work by New York artist Nathan Sawaya, who creates large-scale sculptures from LEGO® bricks, and English artist Mike Stimpson, who is known for re-creating historic events and popular culture scenes using LEGO figurines. Students from Chester Valley Elementary School got to visit the museum and experience this exhibition thanks to a donation from the Rotary Club
- 100 years. This is Anchorage’s Centennial. From Tent City to Urban Center, 1915-2015
- The Anchorage Museum celebrates and preserves the spirit and history of the North. We tell the colorful stories of Alaska's past while exploring life in the North today and envisioning a future full of possibility. We are proud to be an official partner in the Anchorage Centennial Celebration. Our Anchorage Centennial exhibitions and dynamic programs engage local artists, organizations and the community. Celebrate with us! Join the discussions and collaborations. Visit and participate in our Anchorage Centennial exhibitions and events 1915-2015 City Limits – on view through Oct. 11 Home Field – on view through Nov. 1 Arctic Ambitions – on view through Sept. 7 100 Snapshots – opens Nov. 13 Chad Taylor benches Michael Conti Camera Obscura Lectures with Cook Inlet Historical Society
- It is one of science’s burning questions: Will the melting Arctic ice reveal a Northwest Passage – the very thing Captain Cook sought but never found? The foremost British explorer of the 18th century, Captain James Cook circumnavigated the globe twice before setting a course for the North Pacific. Mostly celebrated for his explorations of the South Pacific, Cook also braved the frozen Arctic searching for a northern route to Asia. This exhibition focuses on his journeys in the northeast Pacific during 1778 and 1779. Artifacts, art and hands-on activities for visitors of all ages bring to life this exciting era in history – a time of bold discoveries made dangerous by uncharted waters, rocky coasts and unrelenting ice. The exhibition examines the legacies of Cook’s northern voyage, including changes to indigenous life. The intriguing issues at play in the North during Cook's expedition that are still relevant today, including different nations’ claims to the region and its resources.
- Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night, oil on canvas, 1889, Courtesy of Grande Exhibitions Starry Night Throughout his time at the asylum in Saint-Rémy Van Gogh’s breakdowns increased in severity, as did his violence towards others. This violence also extended to himself with the swallowing of his poisonous paints and self mutilation. Hallucinations and disturbing dreams, often of a religious nature and possibly brought on by the religious overtones of the asylum, exacerbated his suffering. The view from the asylum over the township of Saint-Rémy is depicted in Starry Night. A night sky, swirling clouds and crescent moon with eleven stars, dominated by the foreground cypress reflecting the small steeple in the background giving the scene depth. Van Gogh’s fluid brush strokes and rolling sky are suggestive of intense emotion and provide an insight into a deeply troubled mind, yet do not convey despair.
- Opens Oct. 9, $12-$20 We're redefining the traditional museum experience. In fall 2015, we’ll display Vincent van Gogh’s masterpieces in larger-than-life proportions. Be prepared for a vibrant symphony of light, color and sound, combined and amplified to create an unforgettable multi-sensory experience. https://vimeo.com/96132720
- Florian Schulz: To the Arctic on view through Nov. 1, photographs demonstrate an Arctic teeming with life, dispelling the myth that the Arctic is a place devoid of life. Exhibitions: Sami Stories, On Ice, Arctic Dessert, Qanga The museum curates conversations as much as we curate exhibitions. During the next two years, while the U.S. chairs the Arctic Council, we will host conversations on issues important to the circumpolar North Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center houses an exhibition of 600 rare Alaska Native artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution. The exhibit is designed so visitors can easily compare and contrast different Alaska Native cultural groups.
- Last summer, the Anchorage Museum brought Seattle artist John Grade to Alaska as part of Polar Lab. Grade drove the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Deadhorse, flew deep into Gates of the Arctic National Park and paddled 80 miles down the Noatak River to draw, photograph and make casts of trees. He explored ideas around northern climate by studying pingos, mounds of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic. Because pingos form under specific conditions, they can indicate climate change. Their presence on the tundra is dramatic. “Having the opportunity to experience this Arctic landscape and compare its nuances and gradual changes was amazing,” says Grade. “Even weeks after returning, I still wake up from dreams of moving along on the river and across the expanse of tussocks toward a rising pingo. I don’t think I have ever been so profoundly moved by a landscape before.” His resulting work will appear in a Polar Lab exhibition in 2016. The Anchorage Museum’s Polar Lab brings artists to Alaska and the Circumpolar North and encourages them to use their work to bridge cultures and borders as they explore life in the North.
- Contemporary Alaska Native Art, November 2015-September 2016 Unipkaaġusiksuġuvik (the place of the future/ancient), October-December 2016 Up Here: The Arctic at the Center of the World (working title), May-October 2016 Curated Conversations (working title), September 2016-February 2017 Unipkaaġusiksuġuvik (the place of the future/ancient) is an interdisciplinary installation of an Iñupiaq ceremonial qargi that exists in the space of where the hyper-future meets the superancient, a liminal space where myths are born and the Eagle Mother is honored with ceremony and dance. In 2016, Allison Warden will transform a museum gallery into a qargi. The entrance to the space will give the effect of entering through a tunnel, filled with future/ancient artifacts such as furs made from plastics and ceremonial bones that have neon charms, as well as harpoons that hold iPhones and hunting jackets with LCD screens embedded in the front. In the center will be a virtual smoke hole with projections. Items may be lowered and raised through the smoke hole projections, and the images reflect portals into other worlds. On two walls of the space will be planks of which people can sit. One wall will be entirely covered in projections of moving images and stills. The images will be a combination of the distant past and the distant future. People dancing as animals, images of the mundane present reality will also be included. Sounds of Iñupiaq being spoken will heard in the space. By creating a futuristic recreation of a ceremonial house, Warden allows her audience to gently explore what these spaces might have felt like, but in a contemporary context. The space can be used for modern ceremony, presented as a performance. Allison Warden is an Inupiaq interdisciplinary artist based in Anchorage. Rasmuson Wing slated to open in 2017 The Anchorage Museum will add approximately 25,000 square feet to its existing building to create more exhibition space for its permanent art collection in an expansion slated for completion in 2017. The new wing will house formal and informal galleries, a sculpture garden, offices and a new member and donor lounge. The museum’s last expansion, designed by David Chipperfield and completed in 2010, gave us the ability to house the Imaginarium Discovery Center and to take long-term loan of the Smithsonian’s Alaska Collection. These were key goals of the expansion, along with gaining gallery space to accommodate large traveling exhibitions from around the world and major exhibitions developed by the museum. This expansion will create gallery space to feature art of the North and works by noted Alaska landscape artists, from historical (such as Sydney Laurence and Eustace Ziegler) to contemporary, including our noted contemporary Alaska Native art collection. It also provides space for rotating exhibitions. Plans involve adding one story onto the existing east wing that faces 6th avenue. The new space will be named the Rasmuson Wing. The project will be privately funded. Increased operating expenses will be covered by earned revenues from admissions, facility rentals and other enterprise activities, along with increased funding from the museum’s endowment. The museum will remain open during construction. The museum’s second-floor Alaska Gallery will close beginning July 2016 when work begins on the re-envisioned Alaska Gallery, which is slated to open in September 2017. Camouflage and Other Markings of Concealment and Disruption, October 2016 – January 2017 Encounters: Re-envisioning the Alaska Gallery This is an interdisciplinary endeavor that brings together curators, conservators, collections experts, archivists and education practitioners who will be collaborating with consultants, scholars, community members, advisors, and museum visitors to update and redesign the Anchorage Museum’s Alaska Gallery by 2017—the 150 year anniversary of the Alaska purchase. Multiple viewpoints, varied voices The new Alaska Gallery will emphasize diversity, include multiple points of view and varied voices, weave in environmental history throughout, and create more engaging and interactive experiences that are relevant to today’s visitors. The overarching theme of the 12,000 square foot history instillation is Encounters, which evokes the arrivals and departures of people throughout human history and their interactions with the land and people already here.
- Fuel creativity and ignite minds as an Anchorage Museum volunteer. Volunteers are the heart of our organization. Their support plays a major role in the museum's success. Volunteers help us fulfill our mission to connect people, expand perspectives, and encourage global dialogue about the North and its distinct environment. The museum offers myriad opportunities for adult and teen volunteers: Give an exhibit tour; volunteer during public programs or special events; engage visitors through hand-on activities and more. Polar Lab video Member support contributes to “aha” moments at the Anchorage Museum every day Annually memberships contribute more than $450,000 to buoy educational exhibitions, community cultural events, school field trips and so much more. As a member, every time you walk through our doors, you can feel proud knowing you’ve helped create a community center for learning and inspiration.