We are visiting Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks, Homer, Seward, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Straight Passage, Ketchikan. Can you tell us where the best place to see the best authentic Alaska culture.
Thanks in advance.

On your way to Homer you can visit Kenai. Next to Soldotna it is very modern suburbia but I thought the visitors center although small was very interesting. https://www.kenaichamber.org/visitor-center.html

The museum in Homer was also good but more about history not just native culture.

you might want to read Tisha, the true story of a teacher in 1927 who documents the racism I didn,t realize existed.
we haven,t been to AK for some time. If it,s still there, Title Wave bookstore in Anchorage was a good place to discover books about Alaska. Read local papers anead of time to see what is going on that is usually overlooked by tourists.

Which authentic culture do you have in mind? Yupik Eskimos? Athabascan Indians? Aleuts from the Aleutian chain? Tlingits from SE Alaska? Nome gold miners? Transplanted oil workers from Oklahoma?

Alaska is a vast quilt of cultures, languages, folkways... As with many Native American tribes or nations, the current cultural landscape reflects a lot of cross-fertilization and influence from outside sources: Russian imperialist slavers, various religious missionaries, US military forces, oil patch immigrants, sourdough miners, you name it.

Of your destinations, a couple of suggestions. In Ketchikan, visit Totem Bight State Historical Park and/or the nearby Tlingit village of Saxman. In Juneau, the Alaskan Native Heritage Center; at Icy Strait Point head into the village of Hoonah to see a present-day Native settlement.

On the way to Homer, stop at the village of Ninilchik to see its lovely old Russian Orthodox church. Closer to Homer, the village of Nikolaevsk is one of several small settlements inhabited by so-called "Old Believers," members of a Russian Orthodox sect that still embraces historic clothing, folkways, etc., along the same lines (though not as many) as Amish presence in parts of Pennsylvania.

In Anchorage, visit the Alaska Native Heritage Center to get a birds-eye view of some of the many Native cultures that enrich the state. And on the Glenn Highway north of the city (on the way to the Mat-Su Valley or Denali) the Native village of Eklutna is worth a stop, in particular the graveyard near the old Russian churches, where you can see and learn about the "spirit houses" that cover the graves.

These stops might help give you a glimpse of all the "authentic" cultures that make up the Great Land. But just a glimpse, because it's a big place and people are pretty spread out.

Thanks for all the information, We will probably stop at several of the places that were suggested. Gardyloo, funny you should mention the Amish. We have lived among the Amish in Lancaster county, Pa. all our lives. They are an amazing people.