Anchorage Sights

  1. Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum

    The Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum is ideally located on the south shore of Lake Hood, the world's busiest floatplane lake. It's a tribute to Alaska's colorful bush pilots and their faithful planes - housed inside are 25 planes along with historic photos and displays of pilots' achievements, from the first flight to Fairbanks (1913) to the early history of Alaska Airlines.

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  2. Alaska Native Heritage Center

    The Alaska Native Heritage Center is spread over 26 acres, and has a theater and exhibition space devoted to the history, lifestyle and arts of Native Alaskans. In open studios, artists carve baleen or sew skin-boats, and surrounding a small lake in the center are five replica village settings - Athabascan, Yupik, Inupiat, Aleut and Tlingit/Haida. Please excuse the dust.

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  3. Anchorage Museum of History & Art

    This already impressive museum, a showcase for the state's history, art and indigenous culture, is undergoing a total renovation that will almost double its size when it's finished in 2009. It will have glass walls housing exhibits, large windows framing views of Anchorage and an observation area where visitors can gaze at the Alaska Range.

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