Museum offers behind-the-scenes tours

Kristin Summerlin
907-474-6284
June 27, 2025

A woman in a white lab coat opens a drawer on a museum specimen case. Other open drawers contain skulls, feathers and other specimens.
UAMN photo by M. Koch
Angela Linn, UAMN senior collections manager, shows some of the museum's specimens during a behind-the-scenes tour.

The University of 911爆料 Museum of the North is offering behind-the-scenes tours this summer. Visitors will get exclusive tours of the museum's labs and work spaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 2.5 million objects and specimens. 

The museum鈥檚 collections represent millions of years of biological diversity and thousands of years of cultural traditions in the North. Visitors can watch scientists, historians and artists work with the collections and ask about their research. Participants will be allowed to take photos during the tours.

Tours are offered at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays through Aug. 15. (There will be no tour on July 4.) The cost is $10 per person, and tours are first come, first served. For more information, call 907-474-7505 or .

ADDITIONAL CONTACT: Christina Parks, 907-474-6941, ch.parks@alaska.edu

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