Wasilla Museum is getting prepared for their Preserving  Alaska’s Cultural Organizations live burn event in Wasilla in late August.
"We will be setting up a mock collections room that will be burned and then we will be training in recovery of these items. 
To get the best experience possible, we need your help.
 
Are you getting rid of any of the following items that we could use for this event? 
Deaccessioning items from your collection and need to dispose of them?
Please drop it off at the Wasilla Museum and Visitor Center to be included in the burn. 
Items will ultimately be disposed after the event since they will have fire, smoke and water damage.
So NO HERITAGE ITEMS you want to keep.  These items will be destroyed.
 
We are also looking for old metal shelving, book carts or other storage shelves.
These items will be used in the mock collections room to be burned, but also used to transport items to be recovered.
 
All items need to be dropped off at the Museum located at 391 N Main Street no later than Friday August 26th.
Please call me at 907-414-1997 to schedule a drop off or to let us know you will be bringing items.
Please forward to anyone you know that may be getting rid of the following items.
We will take them off your hands for free and dispose of them.
 
Thank you!!  See the list below for our wish list items to burn 
 
PACO LIVE BURN FAUX MUSEUM MATERIALS WISH LIST
ACCESSORIES shoes, hats
ANTLER & BONE jewelry, whalebone, skulls, carvings
BASKETRY spruce root, cedar bark, coiled grass, straw hats, wicker furniture
BOOKS leatherbound and clothbound we can get modern paperbacks etc easily
CERAMICS figurines, small sculptures, china, commemorative plates, teacups
CHAIR (composite object with textile element)
FUR garments, boots, hats, dolls
GLASS fishing floats, beadwork (purses, jewelry), eyeglasses,
IVORY & TOOTH jewelry, curios, billikens
KERATINS (BALEEN, BEAK, CLAW, FEATHER, HOOF, HORN, QUILL) any of this in any form is great
LEATHER/ SKIN/ GUT purses, wallets, steamer trunks, vests, belts, baseball gloves, parchment, vellum, saddles, drums, hats
METALS jewelry, tools, teapots, enamelware, sculpture, old clocks, coins/tokens, lanterns, helmets
PAINTINGS oil, acrylic, framed with glass or plexi, watercolors, on canvas or panel is really good
PAPER prints/drawings, maps, watercolors, documents (archival collections)
PHOTOS vintage, framed, black and white, color not so much plastic though
PLASTICS minimal, we don’t want to burn much plastic, foam, rubber, vinyl etc
SHELL seashell, tortoiseshell, abalone, dentalium, shell buttons
STONE argillite, slate, small sculptures, carvings, fossils
TAXIDERMY birds, fish, trophy heads
TEXTILES silk, small rugs, hats, uniforms (cotton and wool), lampshades, needlepoint, flags, weavings; (wool, cotton, linen)
Wool Rug
WOOD masks, wood skis/snowshoes, pipes, toys/games, model boats, oars/paddles, musical instruments, small furniture, birchbark, freestanding shelving, arrows (especially with feathers), trunks/chests"