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Anchorage Museum, a museum in Alaska
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Anchorage Museum, a museum in Alaska
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Anchorage Museum, a museum in Alaska
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Anchorage Museum, a museum in Alaska
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Anchorage Museum, a museum in Alaska
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Anchorage Museum is a museum in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 50 m. Mount Williwaw stands 1,660 m to the east-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Alaska Law Enforcement Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Seward Highway passes 0.5 miles off.

About

The story

The Anchorage Museum is a large art, history, ethnography, ecology and science museum located in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. It is dedicated to studying and exploring the land, peoples, art and history of Alaska. The museum displays material from its permanent collection, along with regular visiting exhibitions.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1968.

Wikidata Q4752732, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Step-free access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates61.21599, -149.88461

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fire Fighter's Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
  • Town Square Park: 0.3 mi
  • Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich Park: 0.3 mi
  • Old City Hall Park: 0.3 mi
  • Quyana Park: 0.3 mi
Peaks
  • Snow Hawk Mountain: 8.8 mi
  • Near Point: 8.8 mi
  • Rusty Point: 9.7 mi
  • Nunaka Point: 9.8 mi
  • Kanchee Peak: 10.1 mi
Historic sites: 31
  • Eisenhower Alaska Statehood Monument: 0.4 mi
  • James J. Delaney Memorial: 0.5 mi
  • Given…by the Great Land: 0.5 mi
  • Reflections on the Great One: 0.6 mi
  • O’er Land and Sea a Beacon Bright: 0.6 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Alaska's Marine Life: 0.2 mi
  • Racing in the Footsteps of a Legend: 0.2 mi
  • Focus on Statehood: 0.3 mi
  • Flight of the Raven: 0.3 mi
  • Anchorage Light Speed Planet Walk: 0.4 mi
Gardens: 16
  • Garden of Eatin': 0.5 mi
  • I Street Community Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Fairview Gardens: 0.8 mi
  • Centennial Rose Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Amen Acres: 1.0 mi
Museums: 9
Attractions: 6
Waterfalls: 4
Beaches: 2
  • Lyn Ary Beach: 2.3 mi
  • Beaver Beach: 18.0 mi
Springs: 1
  • Russian Jack Spring: 3.4 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Taku lake Picnic Site: 4.6 mi
Nature reserves: 1
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.1 miles of Anchorage Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount WilliwawESE 122°1,660 m14.6 mi
Temptation PeakESE 106°1,641 m12.5 mi
East Tanaina PeakESE 115°1,633 m13.1 mi
West Tanaina PeakESE 116°1,605 m12.5 mi
The RampSE 128°1,597 m14.3 mi
Tikishla PeakESE 114°1,594 m12.0 mi
O'Malley PeakSE 129°1,570 m12.9 mi
Koktoya PeakESE 116°1,569 m14.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox08:0119:1720:14
June solstice04:2122:1623:43
September equinox07:4519:0520:02
December solstice10:15—15:42

Local time (America/Anchorage).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F152026395058615950362318
Precip in0.50.70.50.30.61.01.72.53.01.60.90.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Anchorage Merrill FLD, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/285248750

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