Anchorage Museum.

• Author: Slaten, Russ
• Position: INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS

The Anchorage Museum has begun design planning to re-envision its hallmark Alaska history gallery. Planning for the multi-year $15 million project began in the early 2000s in conjunction with the museum's most recent addition. The new Alaska Gallery is scheduled to open in September 2017 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Alaska Purchase.

The Alaska Gallery tells Alaska's story from its earliest settlement at the end of the last ice age through the building of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The new Alaska Gallery exhibition will cover this history through an overarching theme of "encounters," evoking the arrivals and departures of people throughout...