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Clausen Memorial Museum

TIME : 2016/2/18 11:57:51

This museum holds an interesting collection of artifacts and relics, mostly related to local fishing history. Exhibits include the largest king salmon ever caught (126lbs), a giant lens from the old Cape Decision lighthouse, a Tlingit dugout canoe and the 30-minute film, Petersburg: The Town Fish Built . Outside is Fisk, the intriguing fish sculpture that was commissioned in 1967 to honor the Alaska Centennial.