By RILEY WOODFORD
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1999
Fine art, hot dogs and history are free Sunday when Juneau celebrates International Museum Day.
The Alaska State Museum, the Juneau-Douglas City Museum and the Last Chance Mining Museum are participating in the annual event...
The state museum will host an outdoor barbecue from noon-to 2 p.m., tied to the opening of the summer exhibit, "Spirit of the North: The Art of Eustace Paul Ziegler." Local restaurants and businesses are donating food.
"It's an open house for the community to visit each of the facilities before the summer rush," said Bruce Kato of the state museum.
The mining museum will host one of the first special events of the day, when local author and mining historian David Stone offers a program on the history of the mines at 11:30 am. Actors playing the Gold Rush Girls, Joe Juneau, and Richard Harris from the summer tourist show "The Gold Nugget Revue" will perform at the mining museum at 2 p.m.
"We'll have people set up to do gold panning demonstrations down at the creek, and if anyone wants to learn how to pan for gold, we'll show them," Hughes said.
The museum has been partially remodeled, and recent donations include antique furniture from the underground mining offices of the Treadwell and Alaska-Juneau mines...
Local folks will be portraying: historical Juneau characters from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, said curator Mary Pat Wyatt. The city museum will also unveil four new displays.
"People will be in costume and in character, and they're not supposed to break character," Wyatt said.
Juenau actress Pat Denny will portray Mary Joyce, a dog musher and entrepreneur who owned the Taku Lodge and the Lucky Lady bar. Michael Orelove will portray Dick Willoughby, a Juneau character from the first half of the century, and Marcia Nye will be Miss Murphy, an early Juneau schoolteacher.
New exhibits at the city museum include a small case of handicrafts from Juneau's past, and an exhibit that focuses on historic business of Juneau. Another focuses on historic buildings of Juneau, some which still stand. The fourth, titled "The Melting Pot Called Juneau " focuses on early immigrants to the area.
"It's very interesting - there were a lot of Eastern Europeans, from the region that's having so much trouble today," Wyatt said. "It includes things that people brought, with them from the old country."
From 5 to 7 p.m., the museum will induct six historic Juneau mining figures to the Alaska Miners' Hail of Fame, a statewide, private foundation.
"Last year they did this in Nome and inducted six figures from the Nome Gold Rush," Wyatt said.
International Museum Day has been celebrated in Juneau since the International Council of Museums founded the event in 1978.
"It's been getting larger every year," said Kato of the state museum. "
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