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Welcome to the chugach Museum

As a new cultural gathering place takes shape in the heart of Anchorage, the Chugach Museum invites all visitors to learn from, connect with, and celebrate the living traditions of Alaska’s Chugach region.

Rooted in community leadership and guided by ancestral knowledge, this museum is a shared space where Chugach voices, values, and ways of knowing lead. Here, the Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) and Eyak peoples are honored not only in history but also in the strength and vibrancy of their living cultures, languages, and relationships with the land and sea.

WHO WE ARE

Grounded in community leadership and illuminated by ancestral knowledge, the museum is a shared space in which Chugach voices, values, and ways of knowing guide every story.

WHY IT MATTERS

At the museum, the Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) and Eyak peoples are honored not only for their history, but for the vitality of their living cultures, their languages, and their profound relationships with the land and sea.

Whether you come as a neighbor, a learner, or a guest, you are warmly welcomed into a place shaped by community, where the stories and languages of the Chugach region continue to flourish.

The remarkable vastness of the land and sea sustained our people and bound our culture together for the last 10,000 years.

Our native culture changes with each generation.

…we want to pass on our native heritage to our children so that they may take pride in it and pass it on…

This is a long journey that we hope will never end.

John F. C. Johnson
Vice President, Cultural Resources, Chugach
The world is always changing.
Sometimes our culture even changes with it.
But our values are basic traditional values will always remain the same, always.

Gary P. Kompkoff
Former Chief of the Native Village of the Tatitlek