For this discussion, I chose to compare and contrast the two museums of the Alaskan local Anchorage Museum and the Museum of Northern British Columbia in Canada. Both museums showcase exhibitions on indigenous cultures of the circumpolar north. In this comparison between the two museums, I will be focusing on the elements of each museum’s…
Read MoreFor this week’s post I will be looking at the Museum of the North and the Arctic Museum of Norway. Two museums with a focus on northern cultures and natural history. First things first, I note that both UAMN and the Arctic University Museum in Norway have a lot of similar topics, despite being several…
Read MoreIn my search for circumpolar north museums to compare/contrast with an Alaskan museum I find the Canadian Museum for Human Rights remarkably interesting. From what I can tell, they don’t have a mission statement rather a mandate that works the same way a mission statement does. Their mandate is to, “…explore the subject of human…
Read MoreFor this assignment, I chose the Arctic University Museum of Norway and the Alaska Aviation Museum in Anchorage. I wanted to compare the About pages to start. The Arctic University Museum says the exhibits provide comprehensive information about the history of our planet Earth as well as the evolution and adaptations of birds and animals…
Read MoreThe two museums that I decided to look at were the Wrangell Museum in Wrangell, and the Fram Museum in Norway. The two elements that I looked into where the About pages and anything relating to online exhibits. Funny enough, for each thing that I looked into, one museum had while the other didn’t. The…
Read MoreFor this assignment I decided to focus on a smaller museum I am personally familiar with, the Wrangell Museum located within my hometown of Wrangell, in Southeast Alaska. This museum is a local cultural museum focusing on the history of the town, and the pre-contact Tlingit culture. For my second Museum selection due to my…
Read MoreThe two museums I chose for this week are the Museum of the North here in Fairbanks, and the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway. In the About page, for the Fairbanks museum, the Museum of the North specializes in all things Alaska both in natural and cultural history and is primarily known for its research…
Read MoreThe two museums I decided to compare and contrast are two aviation museums. One is the Alaska Aviation Museum that I actually visited in the past and had a fun time exploring and learning over there. The other is the Norwegian Aviation Museum (also known as the Norsk Luftarts Museum). The reason why I decided…
Read MoreFor this discussion I chose to write about the Anchorage Museum and the Swedish History Museum. I found navigating the Anchorage Museum’s website to be quite easier to find the right tabs or any accessible information I may have needed. The Swedish Museums website is originally in Swedish, but nowadays with the technology we have;…
Read MoreFor this post, I chose to focus on the Sitka Historical Museum in Sitka, Alaska and the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland. Both are absolutely fascinating places, by the way, and although they have very different scopes and focuses, they both focus a large amount on history. The National Museum of Iceland focuses…
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