Thanks to a partnership with UAF's Institute of Northern Engineering (INE) and the Arctic Infrastructure Development Center (AIDC), the public can now view the bus 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Monday - Friday at the ConocoPhillips Alaska High Bay Structural Testing Lab at the Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility (ELIF Building) on the UAF campus.

Through a collaborative process using a number of community advisory groups, the museum will undergo a multi-year project to conserve the aging bus that has been subject to years of vandalism.

Teams will also develop an interpretive approach that will focus on the various life-stages of the bus. From its service in the 1950s as a part of the Fairbanks City Transit System, as a home for the family of a Yutan Construction Company mining road crew member in the early 1960s, as a shelter for hunters and back-country hikers in the 1970s and '80s, and most famously as the final place of refuge in 1992 for Christopher McCandless, the young man whose story was made famous by the 1996 Jon Krakauer book, Into the Wild.

The bus will be exhibited in an immersive outdoor space near the Museum, on the UAF campus. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience the history safely, for the first time in thirty years.

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