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City Museum Menu General Information Museum Homepage Current and Upcoming Exhibits Free Winter Admission Walking Tour Founding of Juneau Museum Store Directions to Museum Museum Brochure Solo Artist Exhibits Virtual Exhibits Celebrating Statehood Newsletter Museum Photos Contact Information Subscribe to Museum News Public Programs Public Programs Upcoming Classes Educational Tours Offered Volunteers Make It Happen Juneau History Digital Bob Gastineau Channel Memories Historic Sites and Structures Juneau History Grant Research RETURN TO CBJ HOMEPAGE		Juneau-Douglas City Museum Current and Upcoming Exhibits @ the Juneau-Douglas City Museum MouthPower February 5, 2010 - April 24, 2010 Opening reception: Friday, February 5th, 4:30-7:30pm A traveling exhibit from the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, MouthPower features eight interactive learning stations that teach kids (and adults) about the power of a healthy smile and the importance of oral hygiene in a healthy life. This exhibition is sponsored by the Gastineau Channel Historical Society, the Juneau Dental Society, K3 Public Radio and SEARHC. MouthPower is supported by a grant from the Rasmuson Foundation and Southcentral Foundation. 12 X 12 Community Art Exhibit February 5 - 27, 2010 Opening reception: Friday, February 5th, 4:30-7:30pm The City Museum invites artists of all ages and mediums to create inside the box and be a part of this year’s 12X12 Community Art Exhibit. Finished artwork including any framing must be 12” x 12” (12” deep if three dimensional) and must be ready to hang or install. A completed entry form and a registration fee of $12.12 must accompany each submission. Limit one submission per artist. All entries are due by Saturday, January 30th at 4:00 p.m. For more information call 586-3572 or email Alysia. The "Mighty J" and Only Ten Survived Opening reception Friday, November 6th 4:30-7:30pm. Exhibit runs through Novemeber 2010. 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. Politics, Personalities and Power May 2008- Permanent 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 new poetry podcasts click here. U.S. Bureau of Mines: Assay Lab November - permanent Bureau of Mines Assay Lab. JDCM 2006.06.040G. 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. The Juneau-Douglas City Museum also maintains several satellite exhibits. Current satellite exhibits include: the Shell Simmons* exhibit at the Juneau International Airport, Historic Glass Bottles at the Douglas Community Building. 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. Contact the City Museum for more information and to be added to our Museum newsletter mailing list.