Museums - Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository

The Alutiiq Museum opened in 1995 and its collection highlights the Alutiiq, a Pacific Eskimo people who have inhabited the Kodiak Archipelago, Kenai Peninsula, and Alaska Peninsula for more than 7,500 years.
The museum is an outgrowth of the cultural programs of the Kodiak Area Native Association. Upon its opening, it received more than 100,000 items from that organization for its collection. Additions to the collections have been made by other Alutiiq corporations and tribal councils, and from excavations performed by the museum and other institutions and universities.
Objects of note include a group of artifacts from Larsen Bay (which was the first collection to be reparitated from the Smithsonian Institution under NAGPRA) and Karluk One, a collection that includes remarkably well-preserved wood artifacts from AD 1500–1800.
The permanent display collection represents about one percent of the museum’s holdings.