September 2020 News & Events
FREE September Admission
Enjoy FREE admission to the City Museum, this month thanks to another generous donation from the Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum!
Fall/Winter Gallery Hours: Until further notice, the City Museum will continue with our current hours of operation: Thursday-Sunday | 10 am - 4 pm

By Appointment Only Hours: The City Museum is open by appointment on Tuesday and Wednesday between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings from 8:30 am to 9:55 am for individuals, household groups, or established "social bubbles" wishing to tour the City Museum without other visitors. Call 586-3572 to schedule.
Walter Soboleff, 1982; J. Alexander Collection, gift of Susan Derrera.
 
Honoring Dr. Walter Soboleff
with Letters to Loved Ones
With COVID restrictions in place, many people are socializing less with friends and loved ones this year. For this reason, the City Museum is extending their annual Dr. Walter Soboleff Day letter writing event through the end of November. Beginning September 1st you can visit the City Museum for a free notecard, US postage, and an insert honoring Dr. Soboleff to use for mailing letters of gratitude, encouragement, or support to someone in your life. 

In 2014, HB217 was signed into law by the 28th Alaska State Legislature, 2nd session, “an act establishing November 14 each year as Dr. Walter Soboleff Day”. Walter Alexander Soboleff (November 14, 1908 – May 22, 2011) was an influential member of the Juneau community and throughout the state of Alaska. Of Tlingit and Russian-German descent, he contributed to many organizations, including serving in all of the offices at Grand Camp ANB, participating in the Juneau Lions Club, teaching Native Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, serving in the AK National Guard, and his lifetime avocation as Presbyterian pastor for the Juneau Memorial Church and as a traveling preacher. He spent his life working with people, with the goal of higher education, self-respect, spiritual values, tolerance, and equality.

Those who knew him remember his frequent handwritten notes and cards. Through this simple act of recognition and caring, Juneau-Douglas City Museum invites you to send someone a note of encouragement in his honor. As Dr. Soboleff once said, “When you give, feel good about it.”
Receive a Cash Prize of $5,000!
The City Museum is accepting nominations for the Marie Darlin Prize. This $5000.00 Prize recognizes outstanding works of artistic, literary, performative, or scholarly merit that concern the cultures and peoples of Southeast Alaska, the Yukon, or northern British Columbia. The prize is awarded annually to an individual or collaboration whose work, through a combination of vision and shared sense of community, expresses a regional commitment to women’s rights, social history, or community advocacy. Nominees must be either a U.S. citizen or U.S. tax-eligible citizen of another nation. 
Nominees are: 
  • Writers of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or scholarly works.
  • Practitioners of visual, plastic, graphic, fiber or traditional arts and crafts.
  • Performers, directors, or creators of theater, music, film, or dance.  
Nominees must have completed a work of enduring value that has within the past five years been published by a notable press, featured in a solo or group exhibition, or performed at a significant venue. Any individual or organization may submit nominations for the Marie Darlin Prize.
For more information about the Marie Darlin Prize requisites, please visit our website.
COVID Objects in Collection
The City Museum recognizes that we are living through an unprecedented time and so we are collecting and preserving those objects that will tell future generations how we worked together through the trials and tribulations of the pandemic. So far we have collected signs, masks, stickers, and a hospital screening wristband. We will also be collecting community memories about life during COVID. Directions on how to submit your story will be forthcoming on our website.
Museum Store Curbside Delivery
The Museum Store is stocked with locally sourced art, jewelry, notecards, books, scarves, and more. We are working towards moving some of our inventory to an online platform which will allow you to shop the Museum Store online. Currently we are accepting credit card payments in person or over the phone, and we offer curbside deliver.
Place-Based Education Kits
The City Museum has a variety of education kits and resources available to teachers and home school families. For a full description of resources to borrow or download, visit our website and click the education drop-down menu on our homepage.
Echoes of War: Unangax̂ Internment during WWII is on display in the Murray Gallery.
Temporary Exhibit
Through October 18, 2021
Echoes of War: Unangax̂ Internment during WWII
Echoes of War: Unangax̂ Internment during WWII brings attention to the history of the Unangax̂ internment camps in Southeast, Alaska. It is the story of the people of St. Paul and St. George (the Pribilof Islands) who experienced internment in Southeast Alaska at Funter Bay from June 1942 to May 1944, and their subsequent return home to the Pribilof Islands. Telling this story in the words of those who experienced it, we aim to highlight this event and shed light on a topic that is often excluded from history books and school curriculums around the country.

This exhibit was originally intended to be our summer 2020 exhibit. Due to the pandemic, we have extended the exhibit through October 18th, 2021. We hope more people will have an opportunity to visit the City Museum next summer.
MUSEUM INFORMATION
The City Museum will be closed for Labor Day on September 7th

Gallery Hours
Thursday-Sunday: 10 am - 4 pm

By Appointment Only Hours
Tuesday & Wednesday: 10 am - 4 pm
Thursday-Saturday: 8:30 am - 9:55 am

Office Hours (phone or email)
Monday-Friday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

September Admission
FREE

Contact
907 586-3572
The Juneau-Douglas City Museum fosters among its diverse audiences an awareness of Juneau's cultural heritage, values and community memory so we may draw strength and perspective from the past, inspire learning, and find purpose for the future. As a public trust, we collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit those materials that document the cultures and history of the Juneau and Douglas area.