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Key VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The Alaska History Gallery
Practical Information
Imaginarium Discovery Center 625 C Street. Map E5. Tel 929-
Special exhibits 9200. Open mid-May–mid-Sep:
Art of the North 9am–6pm daily; mid-Sep–mid-
May: 10am–6pm Tue–Sat, noon–
Arctic Studies Center
6pm Sun. & 8 - =
Conoco Phillips Gallery ∑ anchoragemuseum.org
Alaska Resource Center
Transport
Planetarium @ 2, 14.
Non-exhibition space
Vintage Hudson Hornet patrol car, FOAST
Law Enforcement Museum
Second floor
2 FOAST Law
Enforcement
Museum
245 W 5th Ave. Map E4. Tel 279-
5050. @ to Downtown Transit
Center. Open 10am–4pm Mon–
Fri, noon–4pm Sat. 7 =
∑ alaskatroopermuseum.com
Prospector’s Cabin
A diorama in the Alaska Gallery shows a Founded with a handful of
log cabin with a prospector weighing officers in 1941 as the Alaska
gold using a small balance scale. State Highway Patrol, Alaska’s
law enforcement agency also
served as the Territorial Police
and the State Police before being
named the Alaska State Troopers
in 1967. The Fraternal Order of
the Alaska State Troopers (FOAST)
established the museum in 1991.
In the early days, the Troopers
protected half a million square
miles (1,295,000 sq km) of
territory using the fairly basic
technology of the time. One
display exhibits a typical 1940s
Yup’ik Ceremonial Mask law enforcement office, where
This traditional Yup’ik mask, made sealskin boots, snowshoes, a
of wood, feathers, and pigment, was clunky period radio, type writer,
created in the Kuskokwim Delta circa and tele phone illustrate the
1900. Masks represented characters wide range of duties a trooper
and experiences in performances was expected to fulfill.
and stories. The most popular exhibit is
the shiny 1952 Hudson Hornet
patrol car, one of the fastest
vehicles of its era, now lovingly
restored. Other dis plays show-
case memorabilia from the days
of the US Marshals, including a
poster offering a $1,000 reward
. Imaginarium for Alaska’s first serial killer,
Discovery Center Edward Krause, who killed
This kid-friendly science ten people between 1912 and
space has many hands- 1915. Another intriguing device
on attractions, such as is the Harger Drunkometer,
a floor that responds a confounding forerunner
to human movement. of the modern breathalyzer.

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