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City Museum reopens June 5 with a new exhibit and modified hours

June 1, 2020 – News

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum will reopen Friday, June 5, with modified days of operation and a new exhibit. Starting June 5, the City Museum will be open Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each week (with the exception of this Friday when the museum will be open until 7 p.m. for an exhibit opening). The museum is located at 4th & Main Street.

The modified schedule is part of the museum’s COVID-19 Mitigation Plan, which is in place to protect the health of museum visitors, staff, and volunteers while providing access to exhibits and museum services. Here are some guidelines for this phase of reopening:

  • Visitors, staff, and volunteers are required to wear face coverings. Face coverings will be provided if needed. Cloth face coverings should not be worn by children under age 2.
  • Social distancing of at least six feet should be maintained between individuals and household groups.
  • No member of the public displaying symptoms of COVID-19 may be present in the museum; signage reflecting this will be posted outside of the museum. No staff or volunteer displaying symptoms of COVID-19 may come to work.
  • Staff and volunteers will wash their hands frequently and visitors are encouraged to do the same using the restrooms. Hand sanitizer will be available at the front desk.
  • High touch surfaces will be sanitized at least daily.
  • To promote proper social distancing, the museum has limited furniture, and installed plastic “sneeze guards” at customer service counters.

The City Museum’s new exhibit, Echoes of War: Unangax Internment During WWII, will be on display from June 5, 2020 through October 18, 2021. The exhibit brings attention to the history of the Unangax internment camps in Southeast, Alaska. It is the story of the people of St. Paul and St. George (the Pribilof Islands) who experienced internment in Southeast Alaska at Funter Bay from June 1942 to May 1944, and their subsequent return home to the Pribilof Islands.

For more information, contact Museum Director Beth Weigel at 586-3572 or [email protected].