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Alaska Native Heritage Center: Explore Indigenous Cultures
4.7
48 Ratings
Anchorage
Explore 10,000 years of Alaska Native history through art, dance, and interactive exhibits at the Alaska Native Heritage Center.
Explore 10,000 years of Alaska Native history through art, dance, and interactive exhibits at the Alaska Native Heritage Center.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Alaska Native Heritage Center - During your visit you will experience Alaska Native dancing, compelling Native Games demonstrations and Village Site tours. You will stroll through six authentic life-sized Native dwellings situated in a wooden area around beautiful Lake Tiulana. One of our Culture Bearers will introduce you to the traditional…
- Alaska Native Heritage Center - During your visit you will experience Alaska Native dancing, compelling Native Games demonstrations and Village Site tours. You will stroll through six authentic life-sized Native dwellings situated in a wooden area around beautiful Lake Tiulana. One of our Culture Bearers will introduce you to the traditional lifeways of the Inupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit, Unangax, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, Yupik, and Cup’ik peoples. - Ch’k’iqadi Gallery - Our re-imagined gift shop focuses exclusively on the sales of authentic Alaska Native arts. Ch’k’iqadi is a Dena’ina Athabascan word meaning “things we buy” and at the Gallery, you have the opportunity to buy art, jewelry and more from talented Alaska Native artists representing all regions and cultures of Alaska. We work to build a strong and sustainable place for our artists to sell their work for years to come. Your purchase directly supports our arts, cultures, and the Alaska Native artist community.
What's Included
- Parking fees
- Parking fees
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Gratuities
- Lunch
- Gratuities
Additional Information
The Alaska Native Heritage Center offers a unique experience for you to learn and explore the traditional and contemporary ways of Alaska’s Indigenous cultures. More than a museum, the Center is a place to engage and interact–to ask questions and discover.
Our living cultures continue to flourish in a changing world, and although our world changes, our…
The Alaska Native Heritage Center offers a unique experience for you to learn and explore the traditional and contemporary ways of Alaska’s Indigenous cultures. More than a museum, the Center is a place to engage and interact–to ask questions and discover.
Our living cultures continue to flourish in a changing world, and although our world changes, our values and traditions remain. Your visit today will take you on a journey through 10,000 years of Alaska Native history and culture through art, dance, Native Games demonstrations, exhibits, traditional Native dwellings, films and more.
Location
Alaska Native Heritage Center
8800 Heritage Center Dr,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(48 Ratings)
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Maury
Jun 23, 2025
Well worth it!! - David our guide was extremely knowledgeable and very informative! He ensured that we knew not only about the animals but the local environment including flowers, landscape, waterways, etc!
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Jguerin77
Jun 19, 2025
Well worth your time to learn about Alaska and its native peoples and culture - Beautiful area with knowledgeable tour guides. We spent more than 3 hours and could have stayed longer. This is a must do when in Anchorage!
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Reedmangreg
Jun 17, 2025
Expensive but great experience! - It was definitely the most expensive "museum" entrance we have visited between Anchorage and Fairbanks areas, but it was still quite a great experience considering the $30 USD per person.
Lots of art (including nice gift shop), there is activities at various times on the stage (we attended the games/exercises one - was pretty cool to see how native tribes stayed in shape to be able to hunt and survive), and my fav part was the outside walk where you get to visit houses/dwelling units of different regions (inside each there was a person that was happy to share info/answer questions) - very cozy, very different and fascinating!
Lastly, we visited the other exhibition room (Hall of Cultures) where you can further learn and admire plenty on the Native Alaskan tribes and their traditions/culture - if you are a sucker for "local" stuff you will love it, as I did!
I am attaching here the picture of the daily schedule so you can perhaps plan for what you want to attend live on the main scene (the Gathering Place) and the map.
Pricey, but worth every penny! Just wish the souvenirs were a bit more affordable :)
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X7108hsjoaop
Jun 15, 2025
Great experience. - Pretty cool to look around by yourself if you want to. I did everything solo and really enjoyed it but there were a bunch of groups here. Really appreciate all the descriptions everywhere. Spent about 2 hours here, but could’ve spent more.
I had to pause a lot at their museum type section because there was a lot of heavy content covered. I appreciated being able to reflect on the alaskan native history here.
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Q3013euvictoriam
Jun 14, 2025
Great experience learning more about the various indigenous people - This place is amazing, we went with a tour guide to see all the native structures outside. There was also native entertainment inside and several exhibits. We learned a lot
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O4984vjericw
Jun 13, 2025
A quick but meaningful visit. Greats crafts for sale too. We will visit again. - During a Globus land tour on June 13, 2025. The gardens are very beautiful too. A must-see when visiting Anchorage. Go go go.
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817madhavik
Jun 10, 2025
So Many Thing to See - So much Culture! - The Alaska Native Heritage Center had so many things to see, like song and dance demonstrations, cultural sports activities, and native houses from all over Alaska. Our tour guide, Jackson, was so knowledgeable, friendly, and so nice. He knew his stuff! He took us on a tour of all the different native houses and explained the Alaskan way of life from all over Alaska. He made the tour so interesting; he personalized it for us, and he included tidbits of his own life as an Alaskan.
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Goplaces67295447274
Jun 10, 2025
Certainly worth going to! - So, so good-a lot better and far more interesting than I had expected. The free shuttle bus which we hopped on outside the Tourist Information Log Cabin runs every hour and was a very efficient way to get there. The guided tour to each lodging was informative and very enjoyable. The Theatre experience was great, the stage shows provided a huge amount of information and the static displays great. Certainly worth a visit.
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Nicolemp7103fj
May 13, 2025
Heritage tour - Very informative friendly staff. Enjoyed learning about the different cultures and ways of life.
I highly recommend!
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Jm87964
Sep 22, 2024
An unexpected and delightful surprise! - I was on a RCCL cruise tour and bored out of my mind with the long rides and constant stops for Walmart, or smokers. I usually don't really like museums so I was preparing to just wander about. Well I was pleasantly surprised at how interesting everything was! I learned so much both good and not so good. Everyone there either staff or volunteers were so nice and informative. I really enjoyed myself and was dreading another long dull bus ride but kept myself entertained by looking up information that I had learned at the center.
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