Learning Through Alaska’s Past

Education at the Museum of Alaska

Education is at the heart of everything we do. The Museum of Alaska provides immersive, hands-on learning experiences that connect visitors of all ages with Alaska’s unique history of transportation, industry, and natural heritage. Whether you’re a teacher planning a field trip, a homeschool family looking for engaging content, or a lifelong learner exploring the Last Frontier, our programs are designed to inform, inspire, and ignite curiosity about the people and tools that built Alaska.

Build a Boat

Learn working next to a Master Boat Builder

over 40 years of Boat making Experience

  • If you can build a boat, you can build a home!
  • Learn to use your hands: Woodworking!
  • With just two sheets of Plywood-A Canoe!
  • Team up with your family and work together to build not only a boat, but a way of life!

Engine shop

We are building a fabrication shop.

Learn to Weld, Metal Lathe, Shape and build

  • Rebuild an Engine: Teach or learn, we do both here.
  • Want to work on a Model T, we have Three!
  • Gas and Diesel, we've got them all
  • Learn skills that will help for a lifetime!

Aviation Ground School

Certified Flight Instructors with over 30 years of experience in Aviation Training and flight!.

  • Openings for Flight Instructors & Students

Curation experience in our Accessions Shop

We have over three thousand artifacts that need to be re-catalogued, sorted and tracked!  This is where a Museum lives and breathes! We must have a great accessions program to have a great Museum. We have both. Come learn an exciting new trade while supporting your museum and having fun.