Lobby Exhibit Conclusion

Continue exploring with another self guided tour or with a ranger to learn more about the park.

NPS Photo/ Cinnamon Dockham

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Amenities

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Assistive Listening Systems, Automated External Defibrillator (AED), Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Information - Maps Available, Information - Ranger/Staff Member Present, Internet/WiFi Available, Junior Ranger Booklet Available, Open Captioning, Restroom - Accessible, Theater/Auditorium, Trash/Litter Receptacles, Water - Bottle-Filling Station, Wheelchair Accessible, Wheelchairs Available

As you continue to explore Sitka National Historical Park, you may realize that there are many other secrets that remain quietly, or perhaps restlessly, hidden in the passage of time.

Take the time to observe the images displayed in the museum exhibit of the 1904 potlatch. Consider the staged nature of the images and what the people in the images might have been thinking.

Explore the Cultural Center hallway and look at more modern pieces of Northwest Coast Art that are showcased. You might reflect on the fact that there was almost a time when the designs and craftsmanship would not be passed on.

Ponder the poles on exhibit in Totem hall and along Totem Trail. Discover why of all the poles in Sitka National Historical Park, only two directly represent the Tlingit in Sitka.

Long before this landscape was designated a National Monument 1910 or a National Park in 1972, it was already a place of considerable cultural significance, memorializing a battle and those who fought. It was also a repository of Cultural artifacts representing other cultures, of the Northwest Coast / Southeast Alaska. For many of those artifacts, we know the dates of acquisition and who relinquished them, but the meanings within are lost like secrets untold.