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     The Anchorage Museum is seeking possible venues for an exhibit
described as follows.

"Lifting the Fog : Russian Exploration of the North Pacific, 1728-1867" will
reveal the world of naturalists, ethnographers, astronomers, cartographers,
geographers, and artists who first described the west coast of America and
Japan to the rest of the world.  Much of what we know about the peoples and
places on the shores of the North Pacific ocean we know because the Russians
provided brilliant maps, reports and art works. This first exhibition
featuring Russia's maritime exploration of the Pacific will feature a
colorful map of the Bering expedition's 7,000 mile trek across Siberia in
1728 and a scale-model of Bering's ship, the first European vessel to land
in Alaska' sextants and chronometers used by the mariners; original
watercolors of botanical and animal species' grass and gutskin artifacts
from the ear of first European contact with northwestern North America' the
original paintings of Native Alaskans and Californians.  Lifting the Fot,
with its accompanying catalog, tells the surprising story of the intrepid
explorers who were the first Europeans in the North Pacific.

Tour dates - january 2001 through April 2002
size:  4,000 to 5,000 square feet.
400 objects,  $40,000 high security.
Curator : Barbara Sweetland Smith

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