Museum Calendar

 

White text on a orange background: 2025 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series: Joy Castro & Brook McClurg.
Thursday, April 3
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UA Museum of the North Auditorium

Join us in the museum auditorium for a public reading featuring authors Joy Castro and Brook McClurg. Part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series.

Two adults and two children sit at a table making a birch tree collage.
Friday, April 11
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Drop in with your toddler or preschooler to create and discover with hands-on activities in the Creativity Lab. April's theme is Trees!

Three children at a table, building with Legos.
Saturday, April 12
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Reichardt Building, UAF Campus

Experiment with hands-on science fun at this UAF event. Explore aurora art and science with the museum!

White text on a pink background: 2025 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series: Annie Wenstrup.
Thursday, April 17
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UA Museum of the North Auditorium

Join us in the museum auditorium for a public reading featuring local author Annie Wenstrup. Part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series.

A squirrel climbing up the trunk of a tree.
Saturday, April 19
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UA Museum of the North

Discover the forests of Interior Alaska! Meet botanists, investigate what trees can tell us about our history, explore cultural connections to trees, create forest art, and more.

Three sketches in colored pencil, showing a stack of TVs, a map of a lake, and a person wearing a hoodie.
April 27th, 2024 – April 27th, 2025
Special Exhibits Gallery

Thinking Made Visible explores the human instinct to express thought through line, form, and color. It is an immersion in possibility and process - honoring and encouraging the practice of slowing down and spending time with an idea, an object, a place.

Crossroads of Beringia: Alaska Botany & Plant Science exhibit
Ongoing
Collections Gallery

Explore the past, present, and future of the flora of the North through the eyes and adventures of UAMN Herbarium (ALA) researchers.

Green aurora lights dance across the night sky.
Ongoing
Museum Auditorium

Enjoy a movie in the museum auditorium! Movie offerings change on a regular basis. Included with museum admission.

360 degree view of museum grounds.
Ongoing
UA Museum of the North

Take a walk around the exterior of the UA Museum of the North to experience historical artifacts, scientific specimens, and larger-than-life artwork with the new tour on the UAMN Mobile App and Audio Guide.

A totem pole carved with a variety of colorful designs, with trees in the background.
Ongoing
UA Museum of the North

Explore artwork and history outside on the museum grounds.

Butterfly and moth specimens in a drawer
Ongoing
UA Museum of the North website

Visit the UA Museum of the North from home with resources for all ages!