We get over a hundred calls a year form people interested in donating objects to the Galt Museum & Archives. The calls always start with a pitch about the objects. Usually, the first words uttered by the caller are “I’ve got an old-old-old thing…” and sometimes that is followed up with “…it’s museum quality.” But what is museum quality?
Read MoreAn important part of preserving a family's history is identifying people and places in our family photo albums. Join Archives Assistant Bobbie Fox to learn some of the best practices for recording vital information on *your* digital photographs.
Read MoreWhat makes a piece of clothing of interest to museums? It might not be what you expect!
Read MoreOur Museum Educator introduces an activity that you can do at home to build a bridge with common items many of us have in our homes and presents the history of the bridge's construction.
Read MoreAs part of our ongoing Wednesday afternoon speaker series, join Museum Educator Rebecca to learn more about why Alberta is one of the few places on the planet that has no Norway rats and how that came to be. Please share your rat encounters in the comments below!
Read MoreAn important part of preserving a family's history is identifying people and places in our family photo albums. Join Bobbie Fox to learn some of the best practices for recording vital information on *your* photographs so people can know answers to the questions "Who's that?" and its related questions "Where's that?" and "When's that?"
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Over the past several years we have received several items from the family of Edward Buchanan related to his time as a Staff Sergeant with the RCMP in Lethbridge. One of those items was a section of thick rope that his son Ted tells us was used in the penultimate execution by hanging carried out in Lethbridge in the late 1940s. Ted attended the hanging, and his father acted as the executioner.
Read MoreThe Galt has been digitally releasing stories about some of those objects to online audiences. The most recent of the objects to be featured are a chess set and painting that belonged to Willi Mueller, a German prisoner of war. These objects are of national historic importance.
Read MoreCollections Technician Kevin MacLean explains why newer, more contemporary objects like CD Players find a home in the Galt's permanent collection as important material history, and listen to donor Rod Schultz share this object's story.
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