Anchorage Alaska Native Heritage Center Experience

The Alaska Native Heritage Center offers a unique experience for you to learn and explore the traditional and contemporary ways of Alaska’s Indigenous cultures. More than a museum, the Center is a place to engage and interact–to ask questions and discover.
Our living cultures continue to flourish in a changing world, and although our world changes, our values and traditions remain. Your visit today will take you on a journey through 10,000 years of Alaska Native history and culture through art, dance, Native Games demonstrations, exhibits, traditional Native dwellings, films and more.

Meeting Point

Alaska Native Heritage Center

8800 Heritage Center Dr, , Anchorage, 99504-6100, Alaska

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours

Alaska Native Heritage Center

8800 Heritage Center Dr, , Anchorage, 99504-6100, Alaska

During your visit you will experience Alaska Native dancing, compelling Native Games demonstrations and Village Site tours. You will stroll through six authentic life-sized Native dwellings situated in a wooden area around beautiful Lake Tiulana. One of our Culture Bearers will introduce you to the traditional lifeways of the Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit, Unangax, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, Yupik, and Cup'ik peoples.

3 hours

Ch’k’iqadi Gallery

8800 Heritage Center Dr, Anchorage, AK 99504, USA

Our re-imagined gift shop focuses exclusively on the sales of authentic Alaska Native arts. Ch’k’iqadi is a Dena’ina Athabascan word meaning “things we buy” and at the
Gallery, you have the opportunity to buy art, jewelry and more from talented Alaska Native artists representing all regions and cultures of Alaska. We work to build a strong
and sustainable place for our artists to sell their work for years to come. Your purchase directly supports our arts, cultures, and the Alaska Native artist community.

30 minutes