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Current Exhibits:

 

All Things Eagle and Raven

All Things Eagle & Raven is a celebration of these two birds and their connection to our lives in Juneau.  This exhibition will include scientific elements about the life and habits of each of these birds as well as their significance within the Tlingit Culture, and as symbols in a greater National context. The exhibition will include life-size eagle and raven nests, regalia, video of performances of eagle and raven songs, photographic images of ravens and eagles in and around Juneau, and illustrated stories written by members of the community.  

 

 

 

 

Beaded pendant with Eagle, Raven and face.  JDCM2005.22.331.

 

 

 

School Time

Our ever popular hands-on-history room returns with a new twist!  This season the room features an old fashion school room complete with an oversized chalk board and a variety of themed areas including geography, science, art and recess.  The science area includes a fur touch board and skulls of animals found in Southeast Alaska.  Our math area highlights Juneau's mining history with weights and measure activities that let you determine your weight in gold!  This version of our hands-on history room also includes a dress up area, old fashion toys and a a variety of historic photographs of students and schools in the Juneau area.  Photo credit: Treadwell School Classroom 1916.  JDCM 94.18.016.

 

 

The "Mighty J" & Only Ten Survived

Photo of the USS Juneau CL-52, autographed by the last living survivor Mr. Frank Holmgren. Image courtesy of Glenn L. Smith.

This combined exhibition includes items from the Museum's permanent collection related to the first USS Juneau CL-52, an anti-aircraft cruiser, the second USS Juneau, the light cruiser CL-119 and the third USS Juneau, the amphibious transport dock LPD-10.  Only Ten Survived is a philatelic (pertaining to the study of postage stamps) exhibit compiled by Glenn L. Smith, Mayor of Orrstown, Pennsylvania and retired naval officer and stamp collector.  Only Ten Survived can be viewed in our audio-visual gallery and on-line by clicking here. 

 

Montana Creek Fish Trap

This 500-700 year old Native fish trap is the first basketry-style fish trap to be discovered in an archaeological context on the Northwest Coast.  Suspended above the original is fish trap is a full scale replica built in 2006 with the support of Sealaska Corporation, a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The exhibit also features a hands-on fish trap model, footage from the 1991 excavation of the fish trap, courtesy of Greg Chaney, and the Montana Creek Fish Trap brochure. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Politics, Personalities and Power

View digital stories about the Quest for Statehood and Alaska's Capital on either of these interactive kiosks located in our Politics, Personalities and Power gallery. 

As the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, it seems only fitting to have an exhibit dedicated to Juneau as Alaska's capital city.  The exhibit features a detailed timeline of events that shaped our capital, artifacts from capital move campaigns and interactive touch-screens that feature a number of historical and cultural topics including: The Quest for Statehood, Elizabeth Peratrovich and Civil Rights, Alaska's Government and Cultures of Juneau.

For more information on the Capital City Digital Stories project and our poetry podcasts click here. 

 

 

 

U.S. Bureau of Mines: Assay Lab

This exhibition is a diorama of the fire assay lab that operated on Mayflower Island from the early 1950s until 1996.  Check out the recently added display panels explaning the assaying process used by the US Bureau of Mines to determine the content of gold in rock samples collected throughout the state.

 

 

 

 

Bureau of Mines Assay Lab.  JDCM 2006.06.040G.

 

 

*The Juneau-Douglas City Museum also maintains several satellite exhibits. Current satellite exhibits include:Historic Glass Bottles at the Douglas Community Building and Vintage Tourism exhibit case at Juneau Conventions & Visitors Bureau located in Centennial Hall, and a small exhibit of Olympic Torch memorabilia in the Assembly Chambers. 

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