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625 C StreetAnchorage, Alaska 99501(907) 929-9200www.anchoragemuseum.orgSMITHSONIAN ARCTIC STUDIES CENTER (CONTINUED)QUOTE SHEET“We can shoot this arrow up in the air. I wonder,how far will it go? That’s the future. That’s whatwe were here for: future generations need toknow our cultures.” — Trimble Gilbert, Gwich’inelder, summing up a week spent in Washington,D.C., with other Athabascan elders to documentthe Smithsonian collections“What does it mean to be Haida? The answernow is different from that of the past, obviously.We need to know our history and learn from it;we need to know our culture and draw strengthfrom it. We need to make it work for us today.”— Jeane Breinig, Haida, exhibition adviserand English professor at the University ofAlaska Anchorage“I once asked my late grandmother why weYup’iks used dance fans and headdresses andeverything else to dance. Her answer was simpleand poignant. She said, ‘Our ancestors are happyto see us so beautiful.’” — Chuna McIntyre,Central Yup’ik Eskimo, exhibition adviser andfounder of Nunamfca (Of Our Land) Yup’ikEskimo Dancers“The Yupik culture has a very long, rich history,and at the Smithsonian you will see artifactsthat our ancestors created hundreds or eventhousands of years ago. I can only imaginethose old-timers, sitting next to the seal oil lampduring the wintertime and etching walrus ivorywith such skill.” — Paapi Merlin Koonooka, St.Lawrence Island Yupik, exhibition adviser andwhaling captain“When he was dying my grandfather called meto his bedside. I was fourteen years old. He said,‘I want you to go back home. I want you to goback to Haines, and I want you to build a fire inthe clan house.’ What he was saying is that mygeneration had to rekindle the fire of our cultureand language. That became our responsibility.”— Rosita Worl, Tlingit, exhibition adviser andanthropology professor at the University ofAlaska Southeast“This exhibition places these masterworks ofthe past in the context of people’s lives today.Many of these artifacts were produced a centuryago. It’s all about continuity of the meaningsand knowledge held in these pieces.” — AronCrowell, Director of the Arctic Studies Center’sAlaska office and curator of the exhibition“Living our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage:The First Peoples of Alaska”“From concept to installation, Alaska Nativeelders and advisors were intimately involvedin this exhibit’s development. The knowledgegained from this close interaction betweenobject and person will be shared with thecommunity and become an important resourcefor future generations.” — James Pepper Henry,Anchorage Museum Director and CEO________________________________________Alaska Native adviser comments are frominterviews conducted as part of the SharingKnowledge Project. Administrator commentswere gathered by the Anchorage Museum.P. 6MEDIA INQUIRIESSarah Henning, Public Relations Coordinator, (907) 929-9231, shenning@anchoragemuseum.orgJanet Asaro, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, (907) 929-9229, jasaro@anchoragemuseum.org
625 C StreetAnchorage, Alaska 99501(907) 929-9200www.anchoragemuseum.orgIMAGINARIUM DISCOVERY CENTEROVERVIEWThe Imaginarium Discovery Center is astimulating, hands-on science center designedto make earth, life and physical sciences fun forall ages. The center’s displays and programsspark intellectual curiosity and imagination—the foundations for scientific learning.HISTORYThe Imaginarium, Alaska’s only hands-on sciencecenter, merged with the Anchorage Museumin June 2008, adding science to the museum’smission. The Imaginarium’s former facility onFifth Avenue closed in August 2009. It reopenedMay 2010 within the Anchorage Museumas the expanded, state-of-the-art ImaginariumDiscovery Center.FACILITYThe new 9,000-square-foot ImaginariumDiscovery Center has 65 percent more exhibitspace than its former location. When themuseum’s shared spaces and planetarium areincluded, the result is a science center nearly fivetimes as large as the previous Imaginarium.The center houses more than 80 exhibitsincluding bigger, better versions of theImaginarium’s most beloved features, and triedand-trueexhibits from the world’s best sciencemuseums. About 25 percent of the exhibits wereconceived specifically for this center.The Imaginarium Discovery Center uses differentmethods of exploration to make learning aboutscience engaging.BP Kinetic SpaceThis area focuses on physics, such as principlesof energy, force and motion.AIR CANNON Visitors aim a pivoting aircannon at moving targets to understand theexistence and movement of air.HOIST CHAIR Sitting in specially designedchairs, visitors experiment with leversand pulleys to haul themselves vertically,demonstrating how mechanical systems canlower the force needed to lift something.INFRARED CAMERA The heat visitors give offis detected by a thermographic camera, sovisitors see themselves in the infrared rangeon a large screen.Thomas Planetarium and Planetarium HallThe 48-seat planetarium focuses on astronomy,the Earth’s atmosphere and the solar system.MAGIC PLANET A 24-inch spherical screenwith images projected from inside, thisinteractive globe uses NASA and NOAAimagery so visitors can see the Earth’sweather patterns, how the planet would lookif the oceans were drained and much more.The globe screen also transforms into otherplanets so visitors can examine, for example,craters on the moon, the polar ice caps ofMars or the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.AURORA IN A BOX This magnetized metalsphere simulates Earth and allows visitorsto introduce different conditions to createan aurora.P. 7MEDIA INQUIRIESSarah Henning, Public Relations Coordinator, (907) 929-9231, shenning@anchoragemuseum.orgJanet Asaro, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, (907) 929-9229, jasaro@anchoragemuseum.org
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