Name: Toby Sullivan: Silver Bay Seafoods, which manages the Aleutak Cannery, and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, which owns the facility and the collection inside it, are both on board with moving the collection to Kodiak if the museums in the city can come to a mutually agreeable leasing terms for the Griffin Building, we can make that happen.
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Description: Silver Bay Seafoods, which manages the Aleutak Cannery, and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, which owns the facility and the collection inside it, are both on board with moving the collection to Kodiak if the museums in the city can come to a mutually agreeable leasing terms for the Griffin Building, we can make that happen.

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Toby Sullivan

11:19 - 11:49

"Silver Bay Seafoods, which manages the Aleutak Cannery, and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, which owns the facility and the collection inside it, are both on board with moving the collection to Kodiak if the museums in the city can come to a mutually agreeable leasing terms for the Griffin Building, we can make that happen."

“Silver Bay Seafoods, which manages the Aleutak Cannery, and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, which owns the facility and the collection inside it, are both on board with moving the collection to Kodiak if the museums in the city can come to a mutually agreeable leasing terms for the Griffin Building, we can make that happen.”

Speaker: Toby Sullivan
Timestamp: 11:19 – 11:49
Source: Kodiak: September 8, 2026, Work Session
Community: Alaska News
Location: Kodiak
Captured at: September 8, 2026

From the transcript

Leasing the Griffin Building would allow us to tell the stories of Kodak's maritime history, particularly with some of the treasures from the Aleutak Cannery Museum. For years I've had conversations with people in Kodiak who ask, when are you bringing that Aleutak Museum to Kodiak? And my answer has always been that it depends on finding a place to put it. Silver Bay Seafoods, which manages the Aleutak Cannery, and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, which owns the facility and the collection inside it, are both on board with moving the collection to Kodiak if the museums in the city can come to a mutually agreeable leasing terms for the Griffin Building, we can make that happen. For the Maritime Museum, this would be an institutionally transformative event, but a new museum would also remake the cultural landscape of downtown Kodiak.

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