Alaska State Museum free on Indigenous Peoples Day as Dorothy Grant exhibit nears close

Admission to Juneau's Alaska State Museum is free from 10 am to 3 pm Monday, Oct. 12, for Indigenous Peoples Day, a day the museum would normally be closed. It is one of the last chances to see the Dorothy Grant retrospective, which runs through Saturday, Oct. 17.

The museum's regular hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm. Admission is $9 for adults and $8 for seniors 65 and older, and free for youth 18 and under and for active-duty military and their families.

"Dorothy Grant Retrospect: Raven Comes Full Circle" spans Grant's 40-year career in more than 40 pieces, from spruce-root weaving and button robes, blankets trimmed with buttons, to regalia and haute couture. Grant, born in Hydaburg, belongs to the Haida Nation's Yahgw Janáas clan. The Haida Gwaii Museum organized the show, and Nika Collison curated it.

The Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum sponsored the loan of the "Raven Takes the World" Haida wedding dress, headdress and "Raven's Beak" shoes from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

The museum says Grant's garments carry yahguudang, the Haida philosophy of respect for the land and those living upon it.