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.

Take a walking tour of the museum and Alaska’s fossil coastline. Discover our natural history collections alongside original art by Ray Troll. This special exhibition is organized by the Anchorage Museum and with support from Lynden, Inc.

Collected Treasures by Karen Stomberg, shown in the museum’s café. Come see these exquisite botanical illustrations drawn of six species of Alaska plants from collections in Fairbanks and the Smithsonian.

Explore artwork and history outside on the museum grounds.

Coming in 2020, the Museum’s long-running and innovative Visitor Audio Guide, Sounds of Place will be 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.