The More You Look

UAMN holds over 2.5 million objects across its 10 research and teaching collections: Earth Science, Fishes, Mammals, Archaeology, Fine Arts, Ethnology and History, Ornithology, Entomology, Documentary Film, and the Herbarium. Here, curators discuss what many might believe is the best part of the job: the fieldwork. Getting out of the office, the lab, the classroom, the compactor–and getting back i...

The stampede trail bus, or Bus 142 has come to the UA Museum of the North. The bus was made famous by the death of Christopher McCandless, John Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, and the subsequent movie of the same name. The condition of the bus when it was removed from the trail and the process of preparing any object for exterior exhibition at the museum mandates professional conservation of the o...

In 2017, the museum opened the second Expedition Alaska show, one of an ongoing series of exhibits that highlights contemporary museum collections research. This show took a look at the work of the Mammals Collection and specifically, museum research into Hoary Marmots. Here, Link Olson, University of Alaska Fairbanks professor and Curator of the UAMN Mammals Collection talks about the research th...

For more than ten years, UA Museum of the North Curator of Entomology, Derek Sikes has traveled to the remote Aleutian volcano, Kasatochi, in order to help study how plant and animal succession reboots, how species are returning to the island after the supposed slate-cleaning of the 2008 eruption. Dr. Sikes discusses this ongoing project in light of successional ecology, Darwin and the heterotroph...

Hello and welcome to The More You Look , a podcast from the UA Museum of the North and your behind-the-scenes journey into museum collections, research, exhibits, and public programming from Fairbanks Alaska. We hope you’ll join us in the months and years to come as we talk about special exhibitions in development, and changes to look for in the permanent galleries. Not just the what, but the how...