Sheldon Jackson Museum

Sheldon Jackson Museum

Sheldon Jackson Museum is a museum located on the campus of Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska.

Sheldon Jackson Museum was founded in 1887, taking the bragging rights as the first museum in the state of Alaska. However, its collection soon outgrew its temporary quarters and a new specially dedicated concrete structure was constructed between 1895 and 1897 and, upon completion, became the first concrete structure ever to be built in Alaska. The museum continues to be located in this structure.

Many of the artifacts housed in the museum (over 5,000) were originally collected by Rev. Sheldon Jackson in his travels through rural Alaska. The museum's collection almost exclusively focus on Alaskan Native groups such as the Aleuts, Athabascans, Eskimos, and Tlingit/Tsimshian. The museum also brings in contemporary Alaskan Native artists to ply their trade for visitors.

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External links

* [http://www.museums.state.ak.us/sheldon_jackson/sjhome.html Official site]


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