Tongass Historical Museum

It was a pleasant visit. Senior 65 and over admission. Well cared for building. Friendly staff. Located near Creek Street. So much to see.

Excellent exhibits and beautiful view of the creek! The museum is affordable (under $10) and free for military! Be sure to donate. The displays are informative, well kept, and specifically mention some of the more unsavory parts of history which is often overlooked or intentionally ignored for the glorification of colonialism. Highly recommend.

It was an informative museum, but not very big, and not really worth the price of admission. It did give me a chance to get out of the torrential downpour, and I was able to take a few cool pics from inside, overlooking the creek.

We took a 20mins walk from Totem Historic museum to here. You can also wait for the free shuttle outside the museum to come over here. A small little compact museum, but all exhibits give you a true sense of the history, culture, and enduring strength and spirit of the people of this salmon city-Ketchikan. It’s provide information about the past Like mining, fishing, cannery, totem poles, Tlingit people and new exhibits are about the new local life. Good to spend 1-2hours reading through the information of course it will be great if tour guide are there to explain more lively information. The reception young staff is patient and explained how we should go round visiting museum. There is a free shuttle bus stop right outside the museum which gave us much convenient during the rainy day.

Didn't arrive till 4.30 and it closed at 5 so very kind staff didn't charge us anything. Really well set out. Extremely interesting. Many thanks for allowing us the chance to visit

The Tongass Historical Museum really provides you with a holistic view of the area and rich history. From the beginning with fossils to mining, oil, cannery (fish), logging, pulp mills, totem poles and the Tlingit people! There are 1,000’s of artifacts and pieces in their collection to see. They don’t charge very much ($6) to go thru and see all the fascinating nuggets of history!

Nice little museum with plenty of arifacts and interesting old photos. Inexpensive too. We really liked the beautiful river that you can view from the museum, or walk to it behind the museum.

Very appreciative that individuals, volunteers and whom ever made the efforts to share the knowledge, experiences, artifacts, with feelings and emotions so that I and others can have a "small" understanding & experiences of those whom came before me, their work, struggles and pleasures. Gives an appreciation of maybe how better I or we have it. The enjoyable photographs that others have taken... just shows a small sample of things of life experiences. An experience that Tongass Historical Museum, Totem Heritage Center and others locations are very important to all US and those who came before us. Do not miss the opportunity!!