Anchorage Museum

Mission :

- Collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the art, history, anthropology and science of Alaska and its relationship to the Circumpolar North.
- Maintain an active and diverse changing exhibition program that acquaints the community with the global spectrum of human artistic, cultural and scientific expression.
- Provide a major cultural center for Anchorage where the community and its visitors meet, create, learn and participate in the museum's programs and activities.
- Stimulate the contributions of a creative population of artists, historians, anthropologists, scientists and other allied professionals.
- Demonstrate leadership and scholarship in its endeavors to serve the widest possible audience and to work with groups, individuals and organizations that share a common interest in cultural, educational and scientific activities.