I enjoy museums wherever we are, and the Museum of the North in Fairbanks takes a lot of the things I like about different types of museums and puts them all together in one place. It’s part ...

Located on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, this museum is the state's only research and teaching museum. Housing more than 1.4 million artifacts and specimens, the collections ...

for the University of Alaska Fairbanks, for this collection and for ornithology are considerable. Kevin Winker is curator of birds at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.

The museum, which is located less than 2 miles north of downtown Fairbanks, is accessible by car or MACS Transit's blue line. The facility welcomes visitors in the summer (from mid-May to mid ...