Alutiiq Museum Recognized by Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries & Museums

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The Alutiiq Museum’s executive director, April Laktonen Counceller, was in Pheonix, Arizona this week to accept an award on the museum’s behalf. At its annual meeting, the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries & Museums granted the Alutiiq Museum its 2016 Museum Institutional Excellence Award.

ATALM is a non-profit which supports indigenous institutions and offers networking and training programs and, according to an Alutiiq museum press release, the museum is the seventh to receive the award since it was established in 2007.

Also according to the press release, the honor was in recognition of the museum’s outreach and education on Alutiiq language and culture and “for its efforts to build, preserve and interpret collections that have opened a chapter of community history… closed for over a century.”