The organ became part of the Alaska State Museum collection in 1975 in order to protect and preserve it. The organ and a custom-built chamber are now in the public atrium of the State Office Building, where organ concerts are performed every Friday over the noon hour. Theater organs were intended to accompany silent films, and allow a single musician to control an amazing array of instruments from the console: not only the pipe organ, but an upright piano, a percussion section, woodwinds, and “all the bells and whistles.” You can read more about the organ here: Īfter various adventures, it was saved and restored by a committee of engaged citizens. One of the more unusual objects in our collection is a 1928 Theater Pipe Organ made by Kimball. Theater Organ in the State Office Building, Juneau Alaska.
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