Kodiak History Museum

Great way to get introduced to Kodiak's history

I take my family here every time they visit. Great place for historical context of the area. A must-see. Also in the oldest occupied building in Alaska (a Russian sea-otter pelt warehouse built in c. ...

Nicely curated small museum

This museum is located in a house built in the early 19th Century by the Russian occupiers of Kodiak Island. It covers the virtual enslavement of the Indigenous people in the interest of fur trapping ...

Kodiak History Museum

Everything is centrally located in Kodiak including the Kodiak History Museum (which used to be named The Baranov Museum and was formerly known as the "Russian American Magazin" or "Erskine House"). B...

Kodiak in a different time

This museum highlights Kodiak during the Russian Era through the early 20th Century. An interesting and colorful past.

Baranov Museum... name change

While in Kodiac, we planned on seeing the well-known Baranov Museum, only to discover the name had been recently changed to ‘Kodiac History Museum’. When asked, ‘Why the Change?’, I was told that it w...