University of Alaska Museum of the North

The University of Alaska Museum of the North, on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, is Alaska’s only accredited research and teaching museum and a major center for studying and exhibiting the natural, cultural, and artistic heritage of Alaska and the Circumpolar North. Founded from a mandate in the university’s 1917 enabling legislation, its collections were consolidated in 1936 and later moved into a purpose-built museum that opened in 2005, with more galleries added in 2006. Today it holds more than 2.5 million artifacts and specimens, including major archaeology, Arctic biology, fine arts, and history collections, as well as notable exhibits such as Blue Babe, a Chilkat robe, and Bus 142.

College, Alaska · United States