The Alaska State Museum is a museum in Juneau , Alaska , United States. The museum's collections include cultural materials from the people of the Northwest Coast ( Tlingit , Haida and Tsimshian ), the Athabascan cultures of Interior Alaska, the Inupiaq of the north coast, and the Yup'ik of the southwest of Alaska, the Alutiiq people of Prince William Sound and Kodiak Island, and the Unangax from out along the Aleutian chain. Artifacts from the state's Russian colonial eras, state and political history, fine art (including contemporary art), natural history, industry and trades can also be found on exhibit.
6-576: After a $ 139 million renovation, it re-opened after a two-year and three-month closure. The museum closed temporarily on February 28, 2014, for the creation of a new facility that joined the State Libraries, Archives and Museum (SLAM) together in a comprehensive research facility. The old structure, designed by Linn A. Forrest , was demolished in August 2014, and a new facility opened on the same footprint (but larger), on June 6, 2016. The new building
12-538: A location in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Linn A. Forrest Linn Argyle Forrest, Sr. (1905–1987) was an American architect of Juneau, Alaska who worked to restore "authentic Southeast Alaska Native architecture, especially totem poles ". During the 1930s and the Great Depression, he oversaw Civilian Conservation Corps programs of
18-722: Is the architect of record of the Oregon State Forester's Office Building , at 2600 State Street in Salem, Oregon, constructed by CCC workers and craftsmen and listed on the National Register of Historic Places . At one time he worked for the architecture group within the United States Forest Service Northwest regional office. Forrest married and had a family. His son, Linn Forrest, Jr., also became an architect. Together
24-847: The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center , the Juneau Federal Building and, with Harold B. Foss , the nearby Chapel by the Lake . He designed the Elvey Building and the Ernest N. Patty Gymnasium (1963) at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks . Forrest came to Alaska after working in the 1930s in Oregon, where he was the lead exterior designer of Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood . Forrest
30-761: The New Deal to preserve totem poles and other aspects of traditional, native architecture. In conjunction with a $ 24,000 U.S. grant to the Alaska Native Brotherhood as a CCC project, Forrest oversaw the construction of the Shakes Island Community House and totems at Wrangell, Alaska during 1937–1939. Drawing on this experience, he later wrote The Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska, which has been printed in 20 editions. Forrest designed
36-591: Was named after the first curator for the Alaska State Museum, the Russian Orthodox priest, Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff. This building is also known as the APK. 58°18′01″N 134°24′56″W / 58.30028°N 134.41556°W / 58.30028; -134.41556 This Alaska museum-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
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