Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1988 on Town Square in downtown Anchorage. Designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, it holds three stages: the Atwood Concert Hall with about 2,000 seats, the Discovery Theatre and the Sydney Laurence Theatre. It is home to the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and Anchorage Opera and hosts touring Broadway shows.
The Anchorage Museum in downtown Anchorage, founded in 1968, covers the art, history and science of Alaska and the North. Its mirrored-glass wing of 2009 was designed by David Chipperfield. The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center shows hundreds of Alaska Native objects on loan from Washington, and the museum also has a planetarium and a hands-on discovery centre.
The Tony Knowles Coastal Trail is a paved path of about 18 km along Cook Inlet, from downtown Anchorage past Westchester Lagoon, Earthquake Park and Point Woronzof to Kincaid Park. Walkers and cyclists use it in summer and cross-country skiers in winter. On clear days it looks across the water to Mount Susitna and, far to the north, Denali; moose are often seen.
The Alaska Aviation Museum stands on the shore of Lake Hood, the seaplane base beside Anchorage's international airport, about 7 km from downtown. Founded in 1988, it tells how aircraft opened up Alaska, with bush planes, floatplanes and airliners in its hangars, a restoration shop and the history of Alaska's airlines; floatplanes take off on the lake outside.
The Alaska Botanical Garden, founded in 1993, lies in the boreal forest of east Anchorage, about 10 km from downtown. Its cultivated gardens show perennials, herbs, alpine rock plants and native species that survive the subarctic climate, and nature trails lead through birch and spruce woods to Campbell Creek. The garden is entirely outdoors.
The Alaska Native Heritage Center, opened in 1999 about 10 km north-east of downtown Anchorage, presents the cultures of Alaska's Native peoples. Its Welcome House hosts dances, stories and Native games, and around Lake Tiulana six village sites show the traditional houses of the Athabascan, Yupʼik and Cupʼik, Iñupiaq, Unangax̂ and Alutiiq, and Eyak, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples.
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