Colony House Museum


This friendly museum is run by enthusiastic Colony descendants. Take the time for a guided tour, and you’ll leave with an appreciation of the enormity of the colonizing project. The museum itself was a ‘Colony Farm House’ built during the original settlement of Palmer, and its eight rooms are still furnished with artifacts and stories from that era.

To bring their living-room piano to Alaska, members of one pioneer family left behind their luggage and stuffed their clothes in it, the only way to make their weight allotment. Rumor has it a sock or two is still stuffed inside.


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