Alaska Museum of Science and Nature

The Alaska Museum of Science and Nature in Anchorage is a natural history museum best known for its fossil collection. Opened in 1994 in Eagle River and relocated by 2015 to Mountain View, it presents Alaska’s natural past and present through six main exhibits. Its displays include dinosaur skeletons and reproductions, marine life specimens such as a full beluga whale skeleton, birds, comparisons of human and animal bones, and an Ice Age scene with Pleistocene animals. Rocks, minerals, meteorites, and fossils from Sutton’s prehistoric forest broaden the collection, while life-sized dinosaur paintings help create a compact introduction to Alaska’s geology, prehistoric life, and wildlife history.

Anchorage, Alaska · United States