If there is one "must-see" in Fairbanks, it's the University of Alaska's Museum of the North, whose exhibits include the state's largest public display of gold, and many significant pieces from 2,000 years of Alaskan art. Behind the scenes, the museum has research collections that total some 1.4 million artifacts and specimens, organized into 10 disciplines (archaeology, birds, documentary film, earth sciences, ethnology/history, fine arts, fishes/marine invertebrates, insects, mammals, and plants).

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