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  RBHS / F.G. Hale Collection A view of early day Seward, Alaska, at the head of Resurrection Bay shows the railroad dock along the southern waterfront.
RBHS / F.G. Hale Collection
A view of early day Seward, Alaska, at the head of Resurrection Bay shows the railroad dock along the southern waterfront.

Upcoming Activities

Thursdays: Our History in October will feature Bev Dunham unveiling the contents of the Centennial Time Capsule. A member of Seward's 2003 Centennial Committee, she will describe what items were added to the capsule in 2003 and 2013, while encouraging folks to bring items to be added in 2023 that reflect important events in the Seward area over the past 10 years. The program will start at  7 pm  Thursday, Oct. 19 at the Seward Community Library & Museum. 

Windows of History

The latest Windows of History display in the Library & Museum atrium celebrates the Alaska Railroad Centennial and looks at how this transportation link from ocean to the Interior got its start with the founding of Seward.

Temporary Exhibit

Loading Coal in Seward. This temporary exhibit in the Seward Museum gives details about the Suneel coal facility that operated for three decades next door to the Alaska Railroad dock in Seward. Starting in 1984, coal traveled by railcar from Usibelli coal mine in Healy before it was loaded in Seward via conveyor belt to outbound transport ships headed to foreign ports.