Museum
Hope - Sunrise Historical and Mining Museum
Billy Miller Leads Tour of Buildings, 2012
Artifact Shed and Sign, 2016
1942 Quonset Hut Theater Open in 2017
Inside Quonset Hut Theater, 2017
Dodge Power Wagon Shelter, 2019
Hope and Sunrise
Historical and Mining Museum
P. O. Box 88
64851 Second Street
Hope, Alaska 99605
Memorial Day - Labor Day, 12 - 4
90 miles south of Anchorage
On the Kenai Peninsula
(907) 885-1240
hopehistoricalsociety@gmail.com
2023
2022
Pandemic 2021 COVID Plan:
6-foot Social Distancing
Sanitation Station by front door (main building)
Contact tracing log inside front door (main building)
Feb. 20 Sat 11:30 HSHS Board Meeting
April 24 Sat Museum Quonset Hut
11:30 Lunch Potluck
12:30 Annual Meeting
3:00 Museum Spring Work Party
May 22 Sat 12:00 Museum Open for Season
Sept 6 Sat 4:00 Museum Closed for Winter
2020
This is the year of the Pandemic temporary closures. Some HSHS activities were canceled in March while other things are only tentatively scheduled. Watch this website for updates.
April 7-10 Seward Museum & Seldovia Museums' Workshop:
Caring for Digital Collections
POSTPONED to Fall
April 25 Hope Museum Outdoor Signs Hung
Motivated by sunny weather, two volunteers hung the signs
May 2 Kenai Peninsula Historical Association Meeting CANCELED
May 9, Sat. 1pm HSHS Annual Meeting: Online Zoom
Museum Grounds Clean-up
YOUR CHALLENGE: Clean any garden patch, your rake + your time
May 23, Sat. Memorial Day Weekend
12 Open: Museum or Grounds Only
Social Hall Program: Invasive Trees,
Maura Schumacher, speaker
CANCELED -- Watch for Online Alternative
YOUR CHALLENGE: Pull European Bird Cherry Trees
July 14, Tues. Ole Tour of Museum and Historic District
Diane Olthuis, tour guide
(Register online with Ole, Anchorage)
CANCELED
July 19, Sun. 11 Wagon Trail Run/Raffle CANCELED
Watch for Virtual Pancake Breakfast
July 25, Sat. 1 Hope and Sunrise Historical Society Board Meeting
Museum Grounds (social distancing)
Aug. 15, Sat. Grinder Bike Race CANCELED
10 Book Talk/Signing with Power Point: Gold Rush Wife
Dr. Rolfe Buzzell, author/speaker
Hope Social Hall
Sept. 7 Mon. 4 Memorial Day: Traditional Close of Museum
Oct. 3, Sat. 10 Kenai Peninsula Historical Association Meeting TENTATIVE
Cooper Landing Historical Society, host
2019
April 18 Hope School students clean Museum buildings
April 23 Tyonek's Tebughna School tour Museum
May 11 10:00 Annual Meeting @ Museum (lunch - your own)
1:00 Museum Grounds Work Party (all welcome)
May 25 10:00 Program: Harry Johnson's Trails (A. Copoulos)
Noon Museum Opens for Summer
July 13 9-12 Outward Bound service event at Museum
July 20 10:00 Program: Guard Station & 1947 Dodge Truck
(Gene Singer)
July 21 11:00 Hope Wagon Trail 5K Run (Hope Social Hall)
July 23-27 Harry Johnson's Trail Brushing (Art Copoulos)
Aug 3 9-12 Outward Bound service event at Museum
Aug 17 10:00 Palmer Creek Race (KMTA Corridor)
TBA Museum Games for Children (Bronwen Wang)
Sept. 2 4:00 Museum Closed for Winter (open on request)
Oct 5 10:00 Kenai Peninsula H A Meet at Hope Social Hall
Speakers: Dr. Buzzell, Scott Sherritt,
Totem Tracers