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We've compiled the best of the best in The Kenai Peninsula and Southcentral Alaska - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
This museum contains one of the largest collections of Alaska Native artifacts. Over the course of several decades, Maxine Whitney, a gift-shop owner, amassed the ivory and baleen pieces, masks, dolls, fur garments, and other objects. Whitney donated her collection to Prince William Sound Community College in 1998; the museum is adjacent to the college.
On a 20-acre site the museum exhibits some of the machines that helped develop Alaska, from dogsleds to jet aircraft and everything in between. The Don Sheldon Building houses aviation artifacts as well as antique autos, trains, and photographic displays. There is also a snowmachine (Alaskan for snowmobile) exhibit.
The Pratt is an art gallery, and a cultural and natural-history museum rolled into one. The gallery showcases some of Alaska's finest artists, as well as special exhibits that rotate regularly. You can also explore botanical gardens, nature trails, and a gift shop, and spy on wildlife via the robotic video cameras set up on a seabird rookery and at the McNeil River Bear Sanctuary. A refurbished homestead cabin and outdoor summer exhibits are along the trail out back.
