Alaska Native Heritage Center

Alaska Native Heritage Center

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  • Address: 8800 Heritage Center Drive, Anchorage
  • Hours: Open daily, 9am - 5pm
  • Admission: $24.95 for adults, $21.15 for Military or Seniors, $16.95 for Children aged 7-16

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Alaska Native Heritage Center
The Alaska Native Heritage Center serves as a welcome wagon for all visitors to Alaska’s rich and diverse history. Here you’ll be able to experience and interact with Native people and their traditions first-hand. Native storytelling, artist demonstrations, Native dance and game performances allow visitors to feel as if they’re living an authentic experience. This is not just a museum - audience participation is encouraged!

In “The Hall of Cultures” you can contemplate over artifacts, manuscripts and images of frontier days in Alaska. You’ll learn what rugged mountains and wildlife helped to make the Yukon great, and what traditional people did to stave off the cold winters and feast in the bright summers. You’ll see how earthen buildings were constructed to be structurally sound and thermally efficient, as well as have the opportunity to buy a traditional Native artifact for a loved one.

Here, at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, visitors get a chance to learn about the great traditions of those native to the land, and see just how amazing life can be in the great outdoors.

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5 star rating: Highly Recommended Review by Egypt, October 2012
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Excellent guide - good way to see the city. Great to see the kids performing at the Heritage Center.

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2 star rating: It was OK, but could have been better Review by Rose C, July 2012
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The city tour was interesting, although it sped by some spots that could have been good photo opportunities. The highlight was the Alaska Native Heritage Center, which I highly reccomend to everyone interested in learning about Alaska Natives and their culture. It is located in a beautiful setting, with lots to see and enjoy. I enjoyed talking with some of the natives who work there and taking pictures. I just wish the tour would have stopped at other spots as well, such as flat top, where I heard you could take in all of Anchorage.

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2 star rating: It was OK, but could have been better Review by Sharon E, July 2012
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City tour part was very weak. However the Heritage Center was excellent!!!

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Practical Info

During Fall and Winter, the Center is open for special events only, though during the summer a complimentary shuttle runs from downtown Anchorage daily through Sept. 6th.

Tickets run $24.95 for adults, $21.15 for Military or Seniors, $16.95 for Children aged 7-16. Family pricing is available, however, as is a private guided tour.

Call 800-315-6608 for more information.
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