Museum of the North

Explore artwork and history outside on the museum grounds.

This spring, the museum articulated and suspended a 43' Bowhead Whale skeleton from the lobby ceiling.

Revisit the 2018-2019 UAMN special exhibition, ShAKe. Explore the 21-part video tour (69 minute running time) to learn about earthquakes in Interior Alaska from guest curator Carl Tape.

The museum’s more than 2.5 million artifacts and specimens are collected by 10 research disciplines. Visit Expedition Alaska in the museum’s Collections Gallery to learn about this foundation of museum research, exhibitions, and programs.

The Museum’s long-running and innovative Visitor Audio Guide has been expanded and made available for the first time as free apps for both iPhone and Android mobile devices, as well as through the museum website.

Thanks to a grant from the GVEA Goodcents program, The Alaska Art Experience 5-screen film introducing the Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery has been redesigned, re-edited, and rebuilt 13 years after it was first installed at the UA Museum of the North.