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Kids Day Free Events and Public Safety Fair
Channel 2 NewsAll over Anchorage, there are plenty of places celebrating Kids Day on Saturday, April 20. The main fun center is at the Dena’ina Center where over 75 youth-serving agencies and organizations have booths set-up with activities geared at young...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Government, Politics, Museum of Natural History, Arts and Culture
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Anchorage Museum Director Takes Phoenix Post
Channel 2 NewsThe director of Alaska's largest museum will become the head of the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Officials at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center in a release say James Pepper Henry's resignation at the Anchorage museum is effective July 5. He's...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture
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Director of Kodiak's Alutiiq Museum Resigns
Kodiak Daily MirrorThe director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak is resigning. The museum announced last week that that Sven Haakanson Jr. will pursue new professional opportunities. Haakanson tells the Kodiak Daily Mirror (http://bit.ly/17lsLuw) that the museum is...Tags: Arts and Culture
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Kodiak Museum to Start Harbor Smartphone Tour
Channel 2 NewsSoon, the history of Kodiak's fishing history might be as close as your smartphone. The Kodiak Maritime Museum would like to have the interactive smartphone tour in place by the end of the year. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports visitors will use...Tags: Arts and Culture
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Anchorage Museum Celebrates Alaska Aviation
Alaska's rich aviation history comes to life in a new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum. "Arctic Flight: a Century of Alaska Aviation" celebrates that history that has allowed Alaskans to live as they do today. It's the 100th anniversary of the powered...
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Anchorage Museum Seeks Artist for New Exhibition
Channel 2 NewsThe Anchorage Museum is taking submissions from artists for a biennial exhibition. Submissions for "Earth, Fire & Fibre XXIV" will be accepted until July 1. Museum officials say the popular juried art exhibit was created to encourage Alaska artists to...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture
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Research Revealed Oldest Known Arctic Skin Boat
Channel 2 NewsThe remains of an umiak, which is a type of boat made out of dried animal skin, were discovered among the recently acquired Birnik collection at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. The remains have been dated at 1,000 years old, making these the...Tags: Archaeology, Science, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture
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Anchorage Museum Displays Rare 200-Year-Old Portraits
Channel 2 NewsRare historic portraits of the parents of an early Russian Alaska governor, Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, are on display at the Anchorage Museum. In 1829, the Russian government appointed Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel to chief manager of Russian-America,...Tags: Politics, Government, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Artists
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Alaska's Moon Rocks Return to the 49th State
Channel 2 NewsWe went to the moon in 1969, a moment where time stopped and the world watched. That same year, President Nixon gave Alaska a gift from outer space, a souvenir from the moon. Those moon rocks from Apollo 11 were on display at an Anchorage transportation...Tags: Richard Nixon, Arts and Culture
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Alaska Remembers 71st Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
Channel 2 NewsSuellyn Novak tells stories for a living, and Friday -- on the 71st anniversary of the event -- she’s telling the story of Japan's Dec. 7, 1941 surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, an event that catapulted the U.S. into World...Tags: Japan, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Historic Oscar Anderson House Kicks Off Winter Fundraiser
Channel 2 NewsOn Dec. 1, the Oscar Anderson house museum kicked off its winter fundraiser in downtown Anchorage. The museum decorations have a 1915 Swedish-themed Christmas, and it also served Swedish-inspired foods for guests. Guests were able to take a full...Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Three New Exhibits Opening at Alaska State Museum
Channel 2 NewsThree new exhibits are being unveiled at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau next week. They include an exhibit by Kristin Link entitiled, "Notes from Nature: A naturalist-artist in Alaska's Wilderness." "Alaska Positive 2012" is a juried photo exhibit, a...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture
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