Museum sights in Southeast Alaska
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Tongass Historical Museum
Sharing a building with the Ketchikan Public Library is the Tongass Historical Museum, which houses a small collection of local historical and Alaska Native artifacts, many dealing with Ketchikan's fishing industry. Outside the museum you'll find the impressive Raven Stealing the Sun totem and an observation platform overlooking the Ketchikan Creek falls.
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Isabel Miller Museum
Within the Centennial Building is the Isabel Miller Museum, which is one room with a good portion of it a gift shop. The rest is crammed with a collection of relics, a model of the town as it appeared in 1867 and displays on Russian Alaska. Outside between the museum and the library is an impressive handcarved Tlingit canoe, made from a single log.
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Skagway Museum
The Skagway Museum is one of the best in Southeast, and its gold-rush relics are some of the most interesting exhibits in a town filled with museums.
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American Bald Eagle Foundation
The American Bald Eagle Foundation displays more than 100 species of animals, including almost two dozen eagles, in their natural habitat.
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Dolly's House
The star of Ketchikan's former red-light district, Creek St, is Dolly's House, the parlor of Ketchikan's most famous madam, Dolly Arthur.
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Alaska State Museum
The Alaska State Museum has artifacts from Alaska's six major indigenous groups, plus a full-size eagles' nest atop a two-story tree.
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Hammer Museum
For something quirky, hit the Hammer Museum, a 1200-hammer monument to owner Dave Pahl's obsession with the tool.
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Clausen Memorial Museum
The Clausen Memorial Museum features local artifacts and fishing relics, and a small but excellent museum store.
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Last Chance Mining Museum
The Last Chance Mining Museum is an impressive complex of railroad lines, ore cars and repair sheds
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Totem Heritage Center
. The Totem Heritage Center features a collection of 19th-century totems in a spiritual setting.
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Sheldon Museum
The Sheldon Museum features indigenous artifacts upstairs, and gold-rush relics downstairs
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Juneau-Douglas City Museum
The Juneau-Douglas City Museum highlights the area's gold-mining history.
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Sheldon Jackson Museum
Sheldon Jackson Museum houses an excellent indigenous culture collection.
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