University of Alaska Museum of the North
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is a cultural and historical museum on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.
Cup'ik kayak stanchions in the museum collection, from Chevak. UA82-003-0057AB.
Current museum building
Signer's Hall at UAF. From the early 1960s to 1980 it was the home to the museum, before moving to the West Ridge of the campus.
Tlingit Chilkat robe in the collection, from Klukwan. UA69-061-0001
Otto William Geist, a.k.a. Aghvook, was an archaeologist, explorer and naturalist who worked in the circumpolar north and for the University of Alaska for much of his adult life.
Geist aged sixteen in 1905.
View of St. Lawrence Island, where Geist conducted several years of research, in 1899.
The Geist Building housing the University of Alaska Museum of the North.