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Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center
More a research facility and museum than a visitors center, this impressive new place has numerous cool interactive exhibits, perhaps the best of which is a room that's a replica seabird colony, complete with cacophonous bird calls and surround-view flocking. There's also a decent film about ship-based marine research, a hands-on discovery lab, and a slate of daily educational programs and guided walks.
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Bear Creek Winery
Wineries are scarcer than vineyards in Alaska, but this impressive family-run operation bottles some fine berry-based wines, plus fireweed mead and rhubarb vino. It conducts tours and tastings daily in the summer and sells its product on-site.
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Fireweed Gallery
Has a more statewide representation than most of the other galleries. It's got photography, metalwork, oil paintings, jewelry, and is also home to the Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society.
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Homer Brewing Company
Isn't a bar, but it does offer 'tours' with free samples of fresh (and some organic) beer - try the broken birch bitter ale.
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Homer Council of the Arts
The cold, dark season of unemployment has inspired a saying in these parts: 'If you're starving, you might as well be an artist.' Just browsing these great galleries is a treat, and on the first Friday of the month, many break out the wine and cheese, and stay open late for a series of openings all over town.
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Homer Spit
This long needle of land - a 4½-mile sand bar stretching into Kachemak Bay - is viewed by some folks as the most fun place in Alaska. Others wish another earthquake would come along and sink the thing. The Spit throbs all summer with tourist masses in unimaginable density, gobbling fish-and-chips, quaffing specialty coffees, getting chair massages, buying alpaca sweaters, arranging bear-watching trips, watching theatrical performances, and - oh yeah - going fishing in search of 300lb halibut.
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Pratt Museum
The renovated Pratt Museum is fantastic - so much so, it loans exhibits to the Smithsonian. There's lots of local art and Alaska Native artifacts, but a more impressive feature is the interactive displays on the area's wildlife, designed to mesmerize both kids and ex-kids. Particularly cool is the remote gull-cam, which you can rotate to zoom in on Gull Island's roosting birds in real time.
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Ptarmigan Arts
An artist-owned and operated co-op featuring mostly works from the Kenai Peninsula, including jewelry, textiles, Alaska Native pieces, and Homer spruce ash-glaze pottery.
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