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Come explore our virtual exhibits!
Learn more about the Kachemak Bay region right here through our virtual exhibits. Experience Alaska's wildlife right from your computer on our wildcam pages, or make a virtual visit to our museum by exploring the multimedia exhibits featured on this page.
Live Wildcams
Watch brown bears live!Summer 2010
Transport yourself to remote Brooks Camp in Katmai National Park, a favorite spot of Alaska's brown bears. From the Pratt Museum we control this live camera at a remote bear sanctuary across Cook Inlet from Homer. Join Pratt staff and a ranger from Lake Clark National Park as we encounter the bears of Brooks Camp. The live feed is available from mid-June to mid-August.
You can watch some example footage of bears at McNeil River here.
Gull Island Remote Camera! Summer 2010
Enjoy the sights and sounds of seabird rookery without the smell! Tune into the live feed from May through August and get "eyeball to eyeball" with Alaskan seabirds. Gulls, kittywakes, horned puffins, red-faced cormorants and murres are some of the birds commonly seen. Museum visitors can watch these animals in their natural habitat without disturbing them by controlling the camera from the comfort of the Museum. The action is live and the images are sharp and colorful. It's almost like being there. If our camera is offline, you can check out some video highlights here.
Kachemak Bay: An Exploration of People and Place
Kachemak
Bay is a place of magical wonder. As the first phase of the Museum's
Master Exhibit Plan, the visitor is taken on a journey beyond the Museum
walls to the historic and contemporary life around Kachemak Bay. Through
means of community-based videos, photo essays, computer interactives,
and remote video technology, these new exhibits and programs promote education
and spark passionate interest in where we live. Click on the canned salmon label at right to learn more about this place we call home.
Sperm Whale Project
In
1988, the carcass of a
sperm whale washed ashore on East Chugach Island about 40 miles south
of Homer, Alaska. Using the salvaged skeletal remains as an inspirational
focus, the Pratt Museum developed a unique community-based marine science
education program in close partnership with Homer High School. This online
exhibit highlights what happened to that 41-foot whale skeleton: research,
documentation, preservation, articulation, exhibition, and interpretation. Click on the photo at right, and well show you how we took it apart and put it back together to hang in the local high school.
Darkened Waters
On
March 24, 1989, the supertanker T/V Exxon Valdez ran aground on
Bligh Reef, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil into
the pristine waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. In hours, the incident
became the largest spill ever in the United States and ultimately perhaps the most destructive accidental spill in the world.
Transported by winds and currents, the oil spread rapidly through the
western part of Prince William Sound, with portions then moving into the
Gulf of Alaska, and down the Peninsula past Kodiak Island.
Summer Intern Podcasts
In the summer of 2009, the National Park Service sponsored three Youth Conservation Corps interns at the Pratt Museum. After a summer of interpreting exhibits, exploring the museum collection, and helping to maintain various museum exhibts, two of our interns produced podcasts about a museum exhibit they really enjoyed. Listen to their experiences below.