Summer 1999 Exhibitions from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art Collection S ummer 1999 exhibitions from the Anchorage Museum of History and Art collection are designed to help visitors learn about Alaska history, its people, and landscape. The galleries feature the themes of exploration, landscape, lifestyles, portraits, and crafts. Gallery 3 is devoted exclusively to the works of Sydney Laurence, Alaska's best-known painter. The show features the work of the most influential Alaska Native artists over the last 30 years. Many different styles and materials, from traditional pieces that use wood, fur, ivory, and bone to modern materials such as aluminum, steel, and plastic, are on display.
Miniature dioramas show Native subsistence lifestyles prior to European contact.
Collections of Aleut, Eskimo, Tlingit, Haida , and Athapaskan materials portray the themes of housing, clothing, transportation, and celebrations. European contact is presented chronologically as each new wave of people came to Alaska seeking riches, with special emphasis on the Russian America Period, New England whaling, gold mining, the building of the railroad, fishing, timber, World War II, statehood, and contemporary Alaska, including the oil pipeline. RLM does not endorse sites behind external links. Read more in Resource Library Magazine about the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Be sure to visit more of Resource Library Magazine with museum exhibition news, stories on American art, calendars, and more.