Partnerships develop over Lethbridge’s Buchanan Art Collection

The Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao’pa (eternal gathering place), Lethbridge College, City of Lethbridge, and the University of Lethbridge have agreed to partner together to further the care, research, and exhibition of the Donald Buchanan art collection.

CollectionsDryden RoeschApril 4, 2023Galt Museum & ArchivesCollections, Art, Donor, Lethbridge Herald, Buchanan, Senator, Group of Seven, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge College, Internship, PartnershipComment

Assessing Museum Collections in 2022

As the primary steward of local history in southwestern Alberta, the Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao’pa always strives to accurately and faithfully represent and serve the communities in which it resides. In 2010, staff at the Galt began to actively assess objects in the collections that do not fit within the museum’s mandate of preserving the human history of Lethbridge and southwestern Alberta.

CollectionsGraham RuttanDecember 7, 2022Galt Museum & ArchivesDeaccession, Collections, Museum, Deaccessioning, Artifacts, Artifact, collections, Active Collecting, CollectionComment

New Exhibition Explores How We Interact with Sound

In what ways do your ears control your actions? This is just one of many thought-provoking questions asked within The Politics of Sound, a new temporary exhibition at the Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao’pa.

CuratorialGraham RuttanNovember 29, 2022Galt Museum & ArchivesCurator, Organizer, Exhibitions, Exhibit, Curatorial, Niitsitapi, The Politics of Sound, Sound, Marjie Crop Eared Wolf, Collection, Collections, KainaiComment

Deaccessioning at the Galt

In 2010, the Galt's staff began actively reviewing the collections and assessing objects that do not fit the collecting mandate of southwestern Alberta. Staff identified numerous objects in the collection that could be "qualified for deaccession."

CollectionsKirstan Schamuhn July 13, 2021Galt Museum & ArchivesDeaccession, Collections, MuseumComment

The Galt is ahead of the digital curve

The Galt Museum & Archives offers online access to over one hundred thousand records of objects from our collection of over a million items, including 85,589 photographs and 13,500 artifacts.

Graham RuttanApril 22, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesOnline, Digital, Collections, Archives, Access, Public access, Database, Digitization, Research, Globe and Mail, MuseumsComment