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Celebrating Valdez Artists

CVA: On the Edge Downloadable CVA Form: CVA2015 Entry Form Beginning this fall, the Valdez Museum’s brings back Celebrating Valdez Artists the museum’s biennale community art exhibition. This non-juried exhibit is open to artists of all backgrounds, working in all 2D and 3D media, showcasing the exciting variety of works produced by Valdez’s talented artists….

Play Ball

Anchorage Museum’s new exhibit, “Home Field Advantage: Baseball in the Far North”, a history of baseball in Alaska, features two objects on load from the Valdez Museum collection. They are a Pinzon Bar baseball team jersey and a wooden baseball bat. The unique baseball bat was carved by Joe Bourke in Copper Center for the 1898 4th of…

Drawing Upon the Collection is Back

$10 per Member $15 per Non-Member Drawing Upon the Collection, informally known as “DUC,” this signature museum program “mines the museum” to start and then stirs together a mix of artifact study with lessons on history, culture, language, science and more. Each session culminates with making art. This year’s topis will include Historic Portraits, Tsunamis…

Collections Database Online

The Valdez Museum’s collection is indeed impressive for a museum of its size, consisting of approximately 75,000 objects, photographs, newspapers, manuscripts and other items. Thanks to a new service purchased by the Valdez Museum from Museum Software, you too can browse the museum’s collection from any computer or mobile device. Based on catalogued records in…

Building Committee

There is excitement in the air at the Valdez Museum & Historical Archive. Like all complex institutions today, museums require planning if they are to meet both the demands within their walls – the inherently growing collections – and the changing needs of their public, both actual and potential. That is why the Valdez Museum…