Museum and Archive Collections Research

Sitka National Historical Park cares for more than 246,000 museum collection items. Tlingit ethnographic items, Russian American archeological and historical items, historical photos, archives, and herbarium specimens are found in the collection. Highlights of the collection include totem poles, Chilkat weaving, Tlingit oral history recordings, 19th century Russian furniture, Russian Orthodox icons and vestments, and over 1,100 original glass plate negatives by Sitka photographer E.W. Merrill.
For more information about access to collection items or for high resolution photographs, please contact the park's museum curator at (907)747-0141 sitk_museum_archives@nps.gov

 

Museum and Archive Collections

Last updated: March 5, 2022

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103 Monastery St.
Sitka, AK 99835

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907 747-0110

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