The Juneau-Douglas City Museum will shift to summer hours starting Saturday, May 4.

From May through September, the museum will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. General admission is $7.00, admission for seniors (65 and older) is $6.00, and children under 13 are free and must be accompanied by an adult.

As a Blue Star Museum, the City Museum offers free admission to active-duty military personnel, including the National Guard and Reserves, and their families.

For information about exhibits, collections, and more, visit juneau.org/museum.

Celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich Day at the City Museum on Friday, February 16 with activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. including screenings of the film For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska and an Elizabeth Peratrovich scavenger hunt among the museum’s exhibits.

Museum admission is free for the month of February thanks to the generous sponsorship of Michelle Storer.

Activities

All day – Elizabeth Peratrovich Scavenger Hunt. Pick up a booklet at the front desk and use it to find and record information about Elizabeth Peratrovich located in the museum’s permanent exhibits. Show your completed booklet and receive a notecard designed by Crystal Worl when complete. (This activity is best for older youth but younger children can complete it with adult help.)

All day – Arts-integrated local classroom projects honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich’s contributions to civil rights in Alaska on display

All day – Free copies of In Sisterhood: The History of Camp 2 of the Alaska Native Sisterhood available to take home

10:15 a.m. – Film screening of For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

11:30 a.m. – Reading of the Governor’s Elizabeth Peratrovich Day Proclamation

12:00 p.m. – Live stream of Tlingit & Haida Native Issues Forum honoring Elizabeth Peratrovich’s legacy

1:30 p.m. – Film screening of For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

2:30 p.m. – Film screening of For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

The City Museum will move to winter hours beginning October 1. During winter, the City Museum will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be closed to the public Sunday and Monday.

Winter hours will remain in effect through April.

Admission to the City Museum is free from October through April. Learn about the Museum’s current exhibitions at juneau.org/museum.

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum will shift to summer hours starting Monday, May 1. From May through September, the museum will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

General admission is $6.00, admission for seniors (65 and older) is $5.00, and children under 13 are free. As a Blue Star Museum, the City Museum offers free admission to active-duty military personnel, including the National Guard and Reserves, and their families.

Although Calhoun Ave is closed to vehicle traffic for the spring/summer due to road reconstruction, access to the pullout/wheelchair ramp on the Calhoun side of the museum will be available. Please be aware that this access may be interrupted at times.

The Last Chance Mining Museum on Basin Road remains closed at this time. It will reopen once construction on the Basin Road Trestle is complete and the road is reopened to vehicular traffic.

For information about the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, including upcoming exhibits, visit juneau.org/museum.

Twelve artists awarded grants under the City & Borough of Juneau COVID-19 ArtWorks Program will be profiled in KTOO’s “Juneau Pandemic ArtWorks” television program, documenting the creative works they produced and their reflections on the impact of COVID-19 on the Juneau community.

The television program, which was produced in partnership between KTOO and the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, will air on KTOO 360TV on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. from October 13 to November 3. It will also be available on demand on KTOO’s Roku channel and online at ktoo.org/watch.

In addition to the artists featured in each episode, City Museum Director Beth Weigel, former Juneau Arts and Humanities Council Executive Director Nancy DeCherney, and CBJ Economic Stabilization Task Force Co-Chair Max Mertz provide commentary and discussion. “This was a special opportunity for the three of us to talk about the impact of this program and the incredible work of these artists on our community,” said Weigel. “This collection of art will be a map of how we as a community navigated the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.”

Beginning Friday, October 14, individual profile videos of each artist featured in the program will be posted online to the Juneau-Douglas City Museum website. A new video will be posted each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday through November 9. Follow the City Museum Facebook and Instagram accounts to see each video as it’s released.

The television program and online videos were funded by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) via a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Alaska State Libraries, Archives & Museums.

The Juneau ArtWorks Program was funded in September 2020 by a CBJ Assembly appropriation of $300,000 of federal CARES Act funding, with the goal of creating employment for artists who lost gigs, had contracts or events cancelled, were laid off, or were otherwise put in a vulnerable position due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ArtWorks, which was administered by the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, ultimately assisted 135 Juneau artists in creating 34 works of art.

Artists were asked to create works of art in any genre that would provide lasting documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the Juneau community. An introductory video states, “In the spirit of the Works Project Administration of the 1930s, the Juneau ArtWorks Program reflects the zeitgeist of the public health emergency and will remind us of how our community responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The following artists will be featured in “Juneau Pandemic ArtWorks”:

Thursday, October 13: Marc Mintz, Della Cheney, Constance Baltuck
Thursday, October 20: MK MacNaughton, Larisa Manewal, Deb Temple
Thursday, October 27: Robert Mills, Puanani Maunu, Lily Hope
Thursday, November 3: Marissa Truitt, Abel Ryan, Rachael Juzeler

For a complete catalogue of works created as part of the Juneau ArtWorks Program, visit jahc.org/juneau-cares-artworks.

For information about the initial call for art, visit jahc.org/artworks-grant.