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You can help us give our past a future, by donating a portion of your Permanent Fund Dividend to the
Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry.
We are a 501c3 non profit organization that exists with admissions, donations, memberships and summer activities.
We use these donated  funds for everyday operation expenses, so we many continue to be one of the
gems of the valley. WE are continuing to have new fun-filled family events through out the summer.
Please use your power to make difference in your community.

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2013 MATI Raffle Quilt

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Thank you to everyone who participated in MATI's 2012 raffle!
Congratulations to Nicole Ryan for winning the beautiful Alaskan Quilt!




2013 Raffle tickets on sale now! $3.00 each or 4 for $10.00

Great Prizes, come out to MATI and check them out.

North Star Quilters produced and donated another outstanding quilt this year.

Summer 2013!

Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry (MATI) 7 days a week from 10am-5pm.
Mother's Day, to Labor Day,
Admission:
Adults $8.00
Children $5.00 ages 3-17
Families $18.00 which means mother, father and minor children
Seniors/Retired Military $5.00
Active Military Free admission. We participate in the Blue Star Museum Program.
MATI Members are always Free.
Individual Membership $25 a year
Family Membershipe $35 a year
Corporate and Lifetime memberships available.
 

Breeden Barn Project You can help with this restoration effort in two ways. If you'd like to help work on the restoration in 2012, just call MATI (376-1211). All volunteers are welcome. You can also make a direct donation to the Breeden Barn Project.
Breeden Barn    
Thanks to our volunteers and supporters for their generous donations and time.   


Call 907-376-1211 to Purchase

THE MUD HEN
The Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry teamed up with local Alaskan Artist James Havens to celebrate Alaska's historical aviation past by issuing their first annual limited edition print titled "THE MUD HEN."   This print features Anchorage's first plane, the Boeing Model C which belonged to Mr. Charles Hammondtree of Anchorage in the early 1920's. This plane was nick named "The Mud Hen" by a few of the old timers for its gray standard navy coloring, its markings, and its landing and taking off on Turnagain Arm's silt filled waters and mud caked beaches. The C Models were initially created to be used as US Navy training planes.   Mr. Hammondtree purchased the plane in a surplus military auction in Washington State. The plane was disassembled and shipped to Anchorage where it was reassembled at the old dock in the Port of Anchorage in 1922.   This print shows "The Mud Hen" flying over Cook Inlet and Anchorage's Ship Creek. In the distance is the Delaney Park Strip which had just recently been cleared to serve as Anchorage's only airstrip at that time. In the distance are the Chugach Mountains.

  About the Artist
 
Mr. Havens is an award winning local artist who has done similar projects including the Alaska Railroad Poster in 2001 and 2004.
Specifications Print $145 (19 1/4" x 29")
Poster $20 (19 1/4" x 29")

In partnership with the Natural Endowment for the Arts Blue
Star Families and more than 900 museums across America, we will be offering FREE Admission to all active military personnel and their families from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day 2012.


Tapscott Mural"


2010 we were honored with the loan of this beautiful mural
made by James Tapscott.  Now on display in the foyer of the Don Sheldon Building.  Come check it out.  Thanks to all the volun-teers and supporters who made this possible especially Millie Tapscott and Lorraine Jallen.










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