Skagway Museum and Archives
The Klondike Gold Rush gets all the attention, but Skagway's history has far more layers than that, and you'll get a good core sample by visiting the this small, city-run museum. The collection spans the ages with artifacts including: a long, dark wooly mammoth tusk; a Tlingit war canoe; Gold Rush-era slot machine and roulette wheel; an amazing patchwork feather quilt, made by missionary women from duck skins and lined with peppercorns to discourage moths; Victorian-era women's lace blouses and cinch-waist wool jackets (man, they cinched their waists in tight!); and World War II-era canteens, helmets and bayonets. There's also hands-on exhibits for kids, with whale baleen to feel, stereoscopes with historic scenes to peer at, and wildlife skeletons to handle. The museum shares space with Skagway's impressive city hall, in a handsome old school that was the first stone building in town (built in 1900).
The Klondike Gold Rush gets all the attention, but Skagway's history has far more layers than that, and you'll get a good core sample by visiting the this small, city-run museum. The collection spans the ages with artifacts including: a long, dark wooly mammoth tusk; a Tlingit war canoe; Gold Rush-era slot machine and roulette wheel; an amazing patchwork feather quilt, made by missionary women from duck skins and lined with peppercorns to discourage moths; Victorian-era women's lace blouses and cinch-waist wool jackets (man, they cinched their waists in tight!); and World War II-era canteens, helmets and bayonets. There's also hands-on exhibits for kids, with whale baleen to feel, stereoscopes with historic scenes to peer at, and wildlife skeletons to handle. The museum shares space with Skagway's impressive city hall, in a handsome old school that was the first stone building in town (built in 1900).
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