20 Best Places to Shop in Juneau, the Inside Passage, and Southeast Alaska, Alaska

Among Southeast's countless gift shops, this one is truly worth checking out. The local owners have curated an intriguing selection of art from around the region, including uncommon, limited collections you won't find elsewhere. Ampersand's selection includes jewelry, original paintings and mixed-media works, prints, and ceramics.

For those in search of locally produced silver jewelry, watercolor prints, and other handmade crafts, this artist-owned shop is a good place to start.

Established in 1975 and a local favorite, this gallery displays a mix of original prints, paintings, pottery, jewelry (including the owner's), and other art and crafts from Alaska artists. If you're in town on the first Friday of any month, ask the staff for a map of the First Friday Art Walk; more than a dozen downtown galleries participate in this monthly event by hosting evening exhibit openings, most of which feature the works of local artists.

In this tiny yet inviting gallery, you'll find a selection of interesting jewelry, ceramics, artwork, and carvings hand-picked by the owner, a Czech-born artist.

Locally owned and operated, this gallery sells artworks, craft items, and other creations—from sculptures to fossilized ivory bracelets to children's books—created by Alaskans.

Authentic Northwest Coast art is the specialty at this crowded gallery run by local Tsimshian artist Ken Decker and his wife. Decker's work includes dance paddles, drums, and bentwood boxes featuring formline ravens, eagles, bears, and salmon.

Longtime locals run this year-round gallery, which features Alaska-made paintings, prints, ceramics, and apparel, including their own work.

A co-op of local artists, this storefront gallery sells their jewelry, pottery, fine-art prints, and other works.

The cooperatively run gallery, on the first floor of the old Senate Building, sells a mix of watercolors, jewelry, oil and acrylic paintings, etchings, photographs, art glass, ceramics, fiber art, and pottery from more than 20 local artists.

Kindred Post is more than the downtown area's sole post office. The local owner has transformed the space into an elegant gallery that features regional jewelry, ceramics, prints, and other works of art.

The gallery, a light and cheery space run by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council, showcases established artists and rising stars. It's well worth a visit.

A Tlingit family owns this crowded shop that specializes in traditional Northwest Coast artworks, from carved silver bracelets to high-end masks. They also have a second location across the street.

Rie Muñoz, one of Alaska's best-known artists, was the creator of a stylized, simple, and colorful design technique that is much copied but rarely equaled. This gallery run by her son is located in the Mendenhall Valley, a 10-minute walk from the airport.

In business since 1972, Scanlon carries the prints of well-known Alaska artists, including Byron Birdsall, John Fehringer, Barbara Lavallee, Rie Muñoz, and Jon Van Zyle. The gallery also exhibits jewelry, glasswork, and pottery.

On the Front Street side of the Walter Soboleff Building, Juneau's regional Alaska Native arts and cultural center, this shop and gallery sells work by Northwest Coast and Alaska Native artists from Seattle to Yakutat and farther north. Here you'll find a wide range of items, from moderately priced earrings and T-shirts to high-end, one-of-a-kind art pieces.

In an 1895 Victorian next to the Bishop's House, the gallery, Sitka's most charming shop, sells Alaskan paintings, sculptures, Native art, and jewelry.

Well-known Ketchikan artist Evon Zerbetz opened this lovely Creek Street gallery in 2024 in a former gallery and before that the local dance hall, The Star House. Zerbetz's linocuts and Ray Troll's prints and T-shirts are featured, along with an interesting mix of jewelry, ceramics, prints, and original art from the region and beyond.

A tiny gallery tucked next to the bookstore, Taiya River is operated by a multigenerational family of artists who create one-of-a-kind carvings and jewelry in wood, silver, and other materials. The black-and-white "Made in Skagway" sign in the window here and elsewhere makes it easy to support local artists and businesses.

This charming gallery run by Haines's former mayor displays jewelry, original art, and prints created by artists from around the region, including Northwest Coast Native artists. The gallery is just up from the cruise-ship dock, and its summer gardens alone are worth the visit.

A brother and sister raised in Sitka own this gallery devoted to showcasing Indigenous artists working in many different mediums. The name translates to "Adze House," a reference to the tool used to hew and shape wood. The gallery offers works ranging from art prints and T-shirts to one-of-a-kind masks, woven baskets, and silver bracelets.