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Valdez Museum Review

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Valdez Museum

Address: 217 Egan Dr., Valdez, AK | Map It
Phone: 907/835-2764
www.valdezmuseum.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Valdez

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Fodor's Review:

A pleasant attraction on a rainy day, if you ever tire of gazing at the 5,000-foot mountain peaks surrounding Valdez, is the Valdez Museum. It explores the lives, livelihoods, and events significant to Valdez and surrounding regions. Exhibits include a restored 1880s Gleason & Baily hand-pump fire engine, a 1907 Ahrens steam fire engine, a 19th-century saloon, information on the local native peoples, and an exhibit on the 1989 oil spill. Every summer the museum hosts an exhibit of quilts and fiber arts made by local and regional artisans. At a separate site, a 35-by-40-foot model of Historical Old Town Valdez (436 Hazlet Ave.) depicts the original town, which was devastated by the 1964 earthquake. There's also an operating seismograph and an exhibit on local seismic activity. A Valdez History Exhibits Pass includes admission to both the museum and the annex.

Cost: $5
Open: June-Aug., daily 9-6; Sept.-May, weekdays 1-5, Sat. noon-4

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