A new installation in the University of Alaska Museum of the North introduces visitors to the Gallery of Alaska.
The installation, Changing Alaska, emphasizes the importance of museum collections and research to the understanding of change on vastly different scales, from seasonal cycles to those that occur over eons.

“Museums exist to collect, preserve and research objects,” says the museum’s head of production Roger Topp. “If a photo is worth a thousand words, an object is worth a million."

Support for the exhibit was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the “NASA’s Eyes on the Arctic” grant.

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