University of Alaska Museum of the North

We had an outstanding time at the Museum of the North and spent about two hours exploring all it has to offer. It is a fantastic blend of geology, geography, culture, and history. Our family loved seeing the fossils and getting a real sense of the size of the mastodon and mammoth displays. The taxidermy collection is also impressive, featuring polar bears, grizzly bears, sea lions, seals, birds, and more. It’s very family-friendly—there is a great family room where kids can explore and play with age-appropriate educational items. We also appreciated the various educational movies running throughout the exhibits, and we finished our visit at their very cute gift shop. Highly recommended for anyone visiting the area who loves a good museum.

If you have some time in Fairbanks, visit the Museum of the North, It is absolutely worth coming forth! You'll learn about Alaskan culture, wildlife and natural wonders, Come check it out before going asunder. The dinosaur fossils were frankly amazing, The exhibits make you wonder about when they were grazing. The Alaskan cultural exhibits were informative and inspiring, You will be able to learn while you're admiring. So come learn about the culture of the Alaskan state, It was truly informative and absolutely great!

We loved the museum! There is so much to read and learn - we were there for hours! We also loved the documentary showings offered at various times. They even have a self check in coat storage which is nice to shed your heavy winter coat, however, it does go by the honor system- there is no attendant there. Bathrooms are also very clean and the gift shop and concession cafe was nice.

Great trip, everything was so informative. Spent the chunk of a morning here and really enjoyed ourselves on a couple's outing. They do have snacks in the lobby/gift store as well, and local kombucha. The gift store had some super unique options if you're shopping for someone!

Riddled with dead animals everywhere. Plenty of people will love this museum, just as reviews show, but I was shocked and disturbed nearly the entire time. First off, this museum is overpriced at $22 ($16 if you’re an Alaskan resident), plus $1.50 an hour for parking on weekdays. I’m a browser, but I only spent 1 hour here. But I could overlook the price tag if it didn’t so heavily glorify hunting and cover more than half of the museum in taxidermy, bloody hunting art, tools and clothing made of animal skin and fur, and have a big centerpiece of a murdered whale. I’m fully aware hunting and animal use is part of Alaskan culture, historically and presently, but it did not present it solely factually, and it overdoes it. It passionately presents it as the correct way to live, as shown in the whaling description, which was funded by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. I understand there is cultural significance of hunting and whaling, especially for Alaska Natives still today, but it all left little room in the museum to showcase artwork and sculptures of living animals and the beauty of Alaska’s nature. For a museum to be so blatantly pro-hunting and even pro-whaling is disheartening and not family-friendly. However, I did very much enjoy the small Natural Wonders exhibit of photographer Michio Hoshino, and I wish there was more of his work and the like. This small museum did an excellent job with their displays and covered a lot of Alaskan history, but it was most certainly not for me, nor is it likely a good visit for other animal lovers either.

The Denali Mountain range view from the museum is spectacular. Hard to believe it's 150 miles away. We had a great time with the family in the museum and we will come back for the planetarium.

We really enjoyed our visit to the Museum of the North. Great place to learn about Alaskan history!! We spent about 2-2.5 hours here but could have spent way longer if we wanted to look at the exhibits even more in depth! One thing to note is that parking is not free, we didn’t know that before visiting but it was only $4.50 or so for 3 hours so it’s not expensive at all.

A great museum located on the beautiful campus.. I loved to learn about Alaska history. Also don't forget to stop by their souvenir shop since there aren't any gift shops in Fairbanks

Paid parking lot was our first introduction. It's not a huge museum but some great information on Alaska and the prehistoric time. Also the art exhibit was very nice. Plan on 30 minutes to an hour and a half to view the museum.

From dinosaurs to native art, historic hunting artifacts to taxidermy, natural history to modern art this museum is worth a stop. The view up there is pretty amazing too.