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  • Body Worlds Vital

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 28-September-2012 to 06-January-2013

    “Body Worlds Vital” is an awe-inspiring exhibition that educates visitors about anatomy, physiology and health through a series of whole bodies, individual organs and transparent body slices. Displays present the most current information about common diseases, the effects of tobacco use, and the mechanics of artificial body parts. By juxtaposing healthy and [...]

  • The High One: Reaching The Top

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 06-April-2012 to 21-October-2012

    For adventurous souls, the tallest peak in North America is an invitation, a challenge pitting man against mountain. Although Mount McKinley has claimed the lives of 114 people, each spring more than a thousand climbers attempt to summit the 20,320-foot mountain. The High One: Reaching the Top explores what drives people [...]

  • Tim Remick: “After – Portraits From Denali”

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 03-February-2012 to 15-April-2012

    For his solo exhibition, Tim Remick photographed emotionally and physically ravaged mountain climbers. He captured them mere moments after they stumbled into Mt. McKinley’s base camp, still raw from the grueling experience. The large-format portraits are nearly 5 feet tall, heightening the drama of every hard-won blister and wrinkle, every haunted eye and guarded grimace. “I [...]

  • Bradford Washburn: “Glories of the Greatland”

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 06-May-2012 to 02-September-2012

    The majestic exhibit of Bradford Washburn’s black-and-white Alaska landscape photographs is back by popular demand. Washburn was recognized as an expert on Alaska’s mountains and glaciers, a brilliant photographer and America’s leading field cartographer. He made more than 50 trips to Alaska in a remarkable career that spanned seven decades. [...]

  • George Browne: “Art Of Altitude”

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 03-February-2012 to 01-May-2012

    Mt. McKinley has been painted innumerable times, but nobody tackled the scenery quite like George Browne (1918-1958). Undaunted by blindness in one eye, the outdoors enthusiast not only conquered the tallest mountain in North America, he created 23 oil paintings during the climb.

  • “AFTER” – Portraits From Denali

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 03-February-2012 to 15-April-2012

    For his solo exhibition, Tim Remick photographed emotionally and physically ravaged mountain climbers. He captured them mere moments after they stumbled into Mt. McKinley’s base camp, still raw from the grueling experience. The large-format portraits are nearly 5 feet tall, heightening the drama of every hard-won blister and wrinkle, every haunted eye and guarded grimace.

  • The Fifty Stone Lithographs of Fred Machetanz

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 20-November-2011 to 25-March-2012

    Fred Machetanz (1908-2002) was one of the state’s most popular artists, known for his paintings and prints depicting daily life in Alaska. One of his most impressive accomplishments was his creation of 50 stone lithographs between 1946 and 1980. He printed just 100 of each design. This exhibition features the Anchorage Museum’s rare, complete set of [...]

  • Wonderland of Toys

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 24-November-2011 to 08-January-2012

    For many Alaska families, journeying to the museum to see “Wonderland of Toys” is a beloved holiday tradition. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, the museum’s atrium is transformed into a dazzling tableau of toys, some that date back as far as the 1800s. Against a backdrop of twinkling lights and [...]

  • SuperTrash

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 04-November-2011 to 08-January-2012

    Campy, visceral and risqué, The Andy Warhol Museum’s “SuperTrash” exhibition features more than 200 pulp film posters from the 1930s to the 1980s. Although there are a handful of posters for modern classics such as Dirty Harry and Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, the bulk are from cult flicks like Blade Runner and gruesome, sensational B movies in [...]

  • Earth, Fire and Fibre XXVIII

    Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage    From 04-November-2011 to 08-January-2012

    In our modern lives, handmade objects offer a coveted and rare connection between what we have and who we are. That’s why craft, however broadly it’s defined, continues to be so meaningful. Earth, Fire and Fibre XXVIII, the Anchorage Museum’s biennial craft exhibition, is one of the state’s longest running juried exhibitions. It showcases Alaska artists [...]