Photos: Anchorage Museum creates new winter exhibit

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Allison Gazay places stylized wooden trees into display tubs as Anchorage Museum staff and volunteers prepare a new "Winter Up Here" atrium display for the holidays on Monday, November 30, 2015, at Rasmuson Center.

Anchorage Museum staff members spent nearly two weeks preparing a new "Winter Up Here" atrium display for the holidays in early December 2015. Designed by Chad Taylor beginning in late summer, the cabin-themed environment replaces the traditional displays that now move to other parts of the museum. "We wanted something people could engage with," said director and CEO Julie Decker. Visitors will be able to make decorations to add to stylized wooden trees. Log walls, trees, a simulated fireplace and other amenities transform the space. Over 100 film clips featuring northern scenes and life are projected continuously on hundreds of fiberglass strips suspended over the fountain and stairwell. The exhibit will remain in place through mid-January.