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Monday, 1st June 2009 (3919 views)

Almost 10,000 people attended the grand reopening of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska last weekend.

According to KTUU, the site, which is now open to the public following a ten-year, 80,000 square-foot expansion, saw large visitor numbers on Saturday due to a free admission offer organised by the museum.

Currently on display is a gold exhibit put together to celebrate the golden anniversary of Alaska becoming a state and James Pepper Henry, director of the museum, told the news source that a large amount of "cultural material" is included in the exhibition.

"You'll see gold coins from ancient Rome and Greece, you'll see gold from sunken ships and you'll see Susan Sarandon's Oscar and Harrison Ford's Golden Globe," he was quoted as saying.

Also included in the exhibition, which runs until the beginning of August, is a Faberge Easter egg and a Paloma Picasso-designed Tiffany brooch, along with an explanation of how gold is produced and mined.

 

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