4162 x 2948 px | 35,2 x 25 cm | 13,9 x 9,8 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
29. Mai 2010
Ort:
Anchorage Museum's Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. Anchorage, Alaska, USA, United States, America
Weitere Informationen:
immerse yourself in the history of northern peoples, cultures, environments, and the issues that matter to northern residents today through the mesmerizing multi-media displays at the Anchorage Museum’s new Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. Anchorage, Alaska. The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center is a museum located in downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Beginning as a public-private partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska purchase, it opened in 1968 with an exhibition of 60 borrowed Alaska paintings and a collection of 2, 500 historic and ethnographic objects loaned from the local historical society, and the museum has been enlarged several times since. Its official name is now Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. Permanent exhibits include an Alaska history gallery, Alaska art galleries, the Imaginarium Discovery Center science galleries and the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, which features Alaska Native artifacts on long-term loan from the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center conducts public programs and collaborative research programs to increase understanding of northern peoples, cultures and environments. It develops exhibitions and offers professional museum training workshops frequented by museum and cultural center personnel from across the state. Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is the northernmost major city in the United States, and largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska. Russian presence in south central Alaska was well-established in the 1800s. In 1867, U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward brokered a deal to purchase Alaska from a debt-ridden Imperial Russia for $7.2 million (about two cents an acre). The deal was lampooned by fellow politicians and by the public as "Seward's folly", "Seward's icebox" and "Walrussia."
