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Museums In Pioneer Park
Pioneer Park is home to several theme museums, as well as historical build- ings. You can visit the Pioneer Muse- campus, You can see stone tools, um , which is devoted to preserving scrapers and arrowheads, wooden ar- historical artifacts from the turn ofthe tifacts, snow beaters and toys, as well century. There's also the Pioneer Air as Ice Age fossils, Russian-American
Museum, a large aviation museum, You can see bush planes and take in Alaska 's aviation heritage in this geo- desic domed structure, which hous- es planes and other transportation equipment inside. Another museum in Pioneer Park is the Wickersham House, the oldest home in Fairbanks, It belonged to frontier Judge James Wickersham,
Auto Museum
There's a world-class auto museum in Fairbanks. The Antique Auto Museum is a great place to look at cars from the turn of the century up to the 1930's and 1940's. Antique bicycles are also on display. The museum has a large shop with fabrication abilities in order to replicate long-lost car parts.
MUSEUMS
Fairbanks has plenty of museums that preserve and display history and art.
Fairbanks has plenty of museums that preserve and display history and art.
UA Museum of the North
exhibits, Gold Rush displays, and Alas- kan animals and birds.
The University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF) runs a museum on the college
