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Welcome to The More You Look, a production of the UA Museum of the North and your behind-the-scenes journey into museum collections, research, exhibits, and public programming from Fairbanks Alaska. Join us as we talk about special exhibitions in development, and changes to look for in the permanent galleries. Not just the what, but the how and why. Learn about new programs and new ways to get involved. Curators will discuss the latest field season and collections managers what new finds hav ...
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Museums are places of connection and relationship: visitor to visitor, visitor to object, object to community, community to future research – and there’s not a department within this museum that doesn’t foster and seek to grow all of those relationships. = Today on the podcast, conversations with two such departments, the museum’s offices of develo…
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Fisheries graduate student Sydney Almgren is studying Pacific Herring in the Bering Sea, their genetic diversity and the structure of the population, because it’s good to know what’s happening in the sea, it’s good to refine techniques and analysis for current and future work, and it’s good to be able to provide a better picture of the ocean to fis…
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In the museum’s latest special exhibition, Thinking Made Visible, perception, communication, and invention are explored through nature journals and cartoons, maps and scientific fieldnotes, architectural, art, and exhibit design. Memory and sensory experience are given form by the humble sketchbook. In the course of developing the exhibit, museum s…
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The stampede trail bus, or Bus 142, saw more than 70 years of use in Fairbanks and then the mining trail west of Healy, Alaska before being flown back across the Teklanika and eventually becoming an object in a museum collection. Before it became a pilgrimage and a touchstone for memory, and well after its life in the military and the Fairbanks tra…
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In this bonus Up Close episode, we continue our Episode 16 ("The Silences") conversation with UAMN Film Curator emeritus, Leonard Kamerling. We talk about the increasing need to curate our personal photos, the value in being an outsider as a storyteller, and what projects Kamerling envisions on the horizon. The More You Look is a production of the …
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In this episode, we talk about how UAMN Film Curator Emeritus, Leonard Kamerling came to filmmaking. What’s changed in the last quarter-century? What is very much the same? And what should we all, as individuals, as families, think about when it comes to the documentation of our own lives. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the N…
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In this episode of the podcast, a conversation with UAMN Curator of Birds, Kevin Winker, and Ornithology Collection Manager, Jack Withrow about the growth of this museum collection, the vastness of North and how little has been studied in detail, the time-tested value of room temperature preservation, the difference between live mounts and study sk…
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In this episode, we continue our Episode 14, "Always Getting Ready" conversation with members of the Friends of the UA Museum of the North. The friends are a group of engaged community members whose purpose is to build a bridge of understanding and knowledge about the museum's collections and research. We pick up the discussion with Ron Inouye, Dav…
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Enjoy this illuminating conversation with several members of the Friends of the UA Museum of the North: Ron Inouye, Tim Doran, and Dave Norton. The Friends are a group of engaged community members whose purpose is to build a bridge of understanding and knowledge about the museum's collections—and the research and other work the collections support.…
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The UAMN audio guide, Sounds of Place was conceived and first recorded in the year 2000 by UAMN Film Curator emeritus, Leonard Kamerling and sound-recordist Kathy Turco. Twenty-something years later, it has grown into a mobile app with 6 tours and nearly 200 stops encompassing all of the museum galleries. The UA Museum of the North mobile app is fr…
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On September 21st and 22nd, 2023, staff and students from four UAMN research collections excavated a humpback whale skeleton on the UAF campus. This, of course, is not its usual habitat. This was not an ancient, fossilized animal. The skeleton, salvaged from the beach at Kincaid Park, Cook Inlet, in southcentral Alaska, was brought by museum staff …
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This week , we interrupt UAMN Ornithology Collection Manager, Jack Withrow, as he installs a small exhibit on the Birds of Beringia. This is the latest edition of Changing Alaska, Changing Collections, a temporary exhibit case near the entrance of the main gallery that highlights recent work from the museum’s collections. The More You Look is a pro…
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Today we visit two conversations with UAMN Fine Arts Collection Manager Della Hall, both recorded in the last year -- Della’s first year in this position. We talk about the collection, about storage space and how books should be organized on a shelf, about the life of objects, about exhibits and how all museums have art – all of them – bar none. We…
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Today, we catch up with Elisabeth Padilla, Education and Public Programs Outreach Specialist and School Tours Coordinator as she prepares the museum’s Creativity Lab for the latest Friday morning installment of the Early Explorers program. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fai…
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It’s easy to forget, with how much we think we know about the world, that new species of animals are being discovered and studied, all of the time. Sometimes, the animal lives where few people are present to observe it. Other times, we just haven’t yet looked close enough. And other times, once in a while, an animal might exhibit an uncommon behavi…
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Today, Jonah Wright, exhibits Chief Preparator and Roger Topp, Director of Exhibits take a moment to talk about exhibition rotation during this period of often orderly, and often chaotic, rapid change in the museum special exhibits gallery. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fa…
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Planning. Safety. Back-up planning. This episode continues our conversation on museum fieldwork, where host Roger Topp sat down with a half-dozen of the museum’s curators to talk about getting out of the lab and into the world, into adventure, if that’s the right word. How do we plan and how do we learn when things don’t go according to plan? Field…
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In this Up-Close episode of the podcast, Angela Linn, Senior Collections Manager for Ethnology and History introduces us to the always-unique process of considering and accepting a new donation of objects. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands of …
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As of late November 2023, UAMN has more than two dozen university graduate and undergraduate students working with and within the museum collections. That’s two dozen not including all the students that work for the exhibits, operations, visitor services, and education departments. This week, we highlight a discussion with Maggie Harings, master's …
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In this special spotlight episode, exhibits staff Tamara Martz, Jonah Wright, and exhibits student Cindy Hickman install a new display of archaeology objects at the entrance to the museum’s Gallery of Alaska. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands …
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As an official repository for the State of Alaska, the UA Museum of the North took possession of the Stampede Trail Bus, or Bus 142 in fall of 2020. In 2022 the museum contracted with the team at B.R. Howard Conservators to assess and conserve Bus 142. That conservation was begun and completed in spring of 2023 within the UAF Engineering Department…
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In this special spotlight episode, we catch up with Angela Linn, UAMN Senior Collections Manager for Ethnology and History as she led the decoration of the museum’s holiday tree with ornaments donated to the museum by Grace Berg Schaible. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fair…
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Host, Roger Topp spent a day in June visiting the closest 2023 museum archaeology site to Fairbanks, a nine-year-old dig of an 8,000-year-old archaeological feature on the Hollembaek farm near Delta, Alaska, and one where the field crew had already spent several weeks that summer, with as many as ten staff, students, and volunteers rotating through…
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In 2023, long-time manager for the UAMN Genomics Collection, Kyndall Hildebrandt left the position, and Mammals Collection graduate student Mallory Gulbranson took responsibility for the collection’s multiple labs, research support, and cryovats. Director of exhibits and program host, Roger Topp had the opportunity to chat with Kyndall and Mallory …
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The bowhead whale is an iconic arctic species inextricably tied to Native cultures in western and northern Alaska and a rare success story in marine mammal conservation. In spring of 2021, the museum and partners articulated a bowhead whale skeleton of a young male harvested by Alaska Native hunters in 1963 near Utqiaġvik and in the museum’s posses…
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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 la…
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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 …
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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 U…
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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 o…
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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 per…
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