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Museums
of Fairbanks
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Everyone's Enjoyment
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Artists,
Artisans, Showrooms, Studios, Galleries,
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•Fairbanks Native Association• |
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Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 - 5:00 |
Admission: None; donations accepted. |
Contemporary collection of Athabaskan cultural
materials; gift shop. |
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Fairbanks Community Museum• |
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5th & Cushman in Old City Hall
Hours:
Summer: Tues-Sat 10:00 - 6:00 |
Admission: Free |
This museum tells the history of Fairbanks, was
founded to help revitalize the downtown area. Features
interpretive displays, period artifacts, newspapers,
archival photos, dog mushing memorabilia, &
the official Yukon Quest store. |
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Pioneer Air Museum• |
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Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
Hours:
Memorial Day-Labor Day: Daily 11am - 9pm |
Admission: $2; Under 12 w/Adult;
Families: $5 |
Discover the birthplace of Alaska aviation-16 aircraft,
41 engines, 50 years of aviation radio history;
miscellaneous memorabilia of Interior and Arctic Alaska
aviation history including the remains of Carl Ben
Eielson's Hamilton aircraft, pictures and WWII
artifacts. Operated by the Interior & Arctic Alaska
Aeronautical Foundation. Museum shop sells books, pins,
post cards, and shirts. |
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Pioneer Museum• |
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Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
Hours:
Memorial Day-Labor Day: Daily 11am - 7pm |
Admission: No fee; Donations gladly accepted. |
Pioneer Museum displays historical collections of photos
and artifacts of Fairbanks and the Fairbanks mining
district from its beginnings in 1902 and early days
through World War II. The show, "The Big Stampede"
portrays the Gold Rushes to the Klondike and to
Fairbanks. It comes alive through the brush of
Fairbanks' and Alaska's premiere artist, C. "Rusty"
Heurlin. It is dramatically lit as one progresses
through history, guided by the descriptive narrative of
Alaska Poet Laureate Ruben Gaines. |
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University of Alaska Museum
of the North• |
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907 Yukon Drive
Hours: May 15-Sept. 15:
9am - 7pm daily |
Admission: Adults
$10, Seniors $9, Youth (7-17) $5 |
Programs in education and
exhibits; collections in aquatics, archeology,
earth sciences, ethnology, herbarium, history,
fine arts, mammalogy, education & ornithology. |
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Wickersham House Museum•
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Pioneer Park, Airport Way
Hours: Memorial Day-Labor Day: Daily 11am - 9pm |
Tanana-Yukon Historical Society
Admission: None; donations accepted. |
A small house museum, dedicated to the life and times of
Judge James Wickersham and his familyduring the years
1900-1910. House, furnishings and decor are authentic to
the time period and to the Wickersham family. |
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