The Aurora Ice Museum

Chena Hot Springs Resort is home to the world’s only year-round ice environment in the world, the Aurora Ice Museum!  It was created from over 1,000 tons of ice and snow all harvested at the resort.  The museum was completed in January 2005 and stays a cool 20 degrees Fahrenheit inside.  Keeping the museum icy cold in the heat of summer comes from the patented absorption chiller, the first of its kind in the world used for this purpose!

The Aurora Ice Museum gallery features amazing ice sculptures created by 13 time world champion ice carver Steve Brice and with his wife, Heather, they are also 4 time champions as a husband and wife team.  Within the museum, they have created a two story observation tower with a circular staircase, life size jousters on horse back, a polar bear bedroom, a Christmas tree bedroom, an igloo and an ice outhouse among other pieces of ice art and additional chambers made exclusively with our Alaska Diamond or Alaska Marble ice.  

As you step inside the ice museum for the very first time, you are mesmerized by the ever-changing colored ice crystal chandeliers overhead depicting the Aurora Borealis.  After touring the museum, relax at the Stolichnaya (Stoli) Ice Bar.  Enjoy sipping our specialty beverage an “appletini” in an ice carved martini glass while awed by your surroundings.  Sit comfortably on our caribou fur covered stools and take in the view or warm your hands by the ice fireplace.

The Aurora Ice Museum at Chena Hot Springs Resort is truly one of a kind because it is open year-round! Come see it for yourself today!

Steve & Heather Brice, Aurora Ice Museum ice carving team