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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre Frommer's Highly Recommended

Hours Mid-May to Labour Day daily 9am-6pm; winter Sun 1-5pm
Location Adjacent to the Yukon Transportation Museum, on Electra Crescent.; Mile 917 on the Alaska Hwy
Phone 867/667-8855
Web site www.beringia.com
Prices C$5 (US$4) adults, C$4 (US$3.20) students, children 5 and under free. Combo ticket with Yukon Transportation Museum C$6 (US$4.80) adults, C$4 (US$3.20) students, C$9 (US$7.20) family

Frommer's Review

During the last ice age, a land bridge joined Asia to Alaska and the Yukon, forming a subcontinent known as Beringia. Bordered on all sides by glaciers, Beringia was once home to woolly mammoths and other fascinating Pleistocene-era animals, as well as to cave-dwelling humans. This museum presents the archaeological and paleontological past of Beringia, with life-size exhibits of ice-age animals, multimedia displays, films, and dioramas on its prehistoric people, animals, plants, and ecosystems. Try your hand at hurling an atlatl, which is a sling and spear weapon that early hunters used in these parts 10,000 years ago.

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