Exhibits

Why do we collect things? Special, saved objects can remind us of days past, transport us to another place, or help us remember the stories we tell. When an object is chosen to be saved, it is removed from its former context as an everyday, functional thing, and is redefined by its collector. As collectors decide which objects to keep and why, they create their own identity and build their own story about the past.

For Keeps—Collecting Memories at the Galt Museum & Archives features artifacts from the Galt's collections and personal collections that have different kinds of human histories. Visitors can enter a vi...

Women's Hands Building a Nation, is an exhibition commemorating Canada's 150th birthday. The show is a collection of fibre ar pieces celebrating women's accomplishments and contributions to Canada's growth as a nation. The collection of fibre art works by members of the Chinoook Guild of Fibre Arts  were inspired by personal histories or specific women who rose to challenges they faced. 

To soar like a hawk, or ride a wild “mountain wave” off the edge of the Rockies: for almost 90 years this dream has enticed gliding enthusiasts to the skies of southwestern Alberta.

Gliders are lightweight, motorless aircraft. Pilots launch gliders into the air, flying on rising spirals of warm air called thermals. Gliding began in western Canada in the 1920s. Handmade gliders were soon being tested in small towns such as Cardston and Taber.

Three Lethbridge students pooled their resources to build a simple primary glider in 1929. On May 11, 1930, the Lethbridge Glider Club launched the wooden craft using a...