Alaska State Museum
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About the Business
Exhibits explore native culture, natural science & history, plus a kids' section with a play area.
Location & Hours
395 Whittier St, Juneau, AK 99801
Juneau, AK
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3 reviews
An incredible museum filled with Indigenous history, culture and arts and local art as well. We learned so much about the history of Indigenous tribes and their lives. I walked away with a deeper awareness and understanding of their diverse heritage and the beautiful ways they preserved the nature and connection with their land. Highly recommend!
There is free parking and general admission for adults is $14. Free admission for up to 5 people if you are an active military member+family.
Thanks for the kind review Jaja C! We're so glad you "walked away with a deeper awareness and understanding" of the Indigenous Peoples of Alaska. Thanks for saying you highly recommend a visit to the Alaska State Museum!
We took a quick visit before a whale watching tour, since we wanted to learn about the history of the area.
I really enjoyed how it took you through time starting with the native people and their culture and artifacts, followed by the various modern colonizing groups and their effects on the area, and then into the eventual statehood of Alaska.
There are multiple clean bathrooms, the museum is clean, perfectly lit, has a great layout, words are easy to read, the items on display are in wonderful condition and displayed well. There is a kids area with supplies to draw and make crafts as well as play on a ship. Overall it's a good experience that will take about 1 hour to get through. I would reccomend going her if you are in Juneau.
Hi Jared, Many thanks for your kind review! We're glad you had a good time, and we agree, most visitors average about an hour to take in everything. We're so delighted with your kind words that we'll pass on to our janitors that you found the restrooms clean, and will pass on to exhibits staff that the items on display are 'perfectly lit' (!) and to our Curator of Collections and Exhibit Curator who both worked on gallery layout 10 years ago for this new building that you appreciated the layout of the galleries ... yes, they still work here and are still doing brilliant work! Thanks again for taking the time to comment and for your kind words, and recommendation that others visit when they find themselves in Juneau.
It was a nice museum, but REALLY dropped the ball when it came to the last section, the one I was most interested in, and looking forward to, the Geology.
With how geology rich Alaska is, I could not believe they had basically NOTHING relating to volcanos, earthquakes, orology, samples of not only gold, but other minerals rich in the state. Glaciers, not a thing on glaciers at all.
It was not worth the money I paid to get in, and they did not even give me the correct change back, did not notice until I got back on the ship.
The coolest part of the whole thing were the massive ravens OUTSIDE the museum that a homeless man was feeding, they must have been about 3 feet tall!!
I wish I had taken pictures of them, as they were not there when I left the museum.
Take my $37 you did not give back from my $50 and use it improving your geological displays!
Hi Valerie, we're so sorry to hear that you received incorrect change from your admission purchase. Had you mentioned it at the time, we would have done everything possible to correct it. We're also sorry that you were disappointed in our earth sciences displays. Have you been to the University of Alaska Museum of the North (Fairbanks)? Now there's a geological wonder! Still, we do wish to point out that in our mining section, there are several standing cases replete with mineral samples, and rather complete with gold nuggets. Also curious if you noticed our 2 moonrocks in the earth sciences gallery when you were here? Just upstairs from the museum, there's an entire 20-foot casework display about the 1964 earthquake and it's impacts -- we're sorry you missed that as well. Finally, we hope you got a nice education on glaciers at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, or at Glacier Bay National Park. Most visitors to Southeast Alaska visit one or both of these venues to learn about glaciers. We hope you enjoyed the rest of your visit to Alaska, we're grateful you took time to visit our galleries, and thank you again for your comments.
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