When we hear of internet, TV or radio channels being censored, it can be easy to think only of governments in distant lands like Russia, China or North Korea. However, there have been times in history that the Canadian government has controlled what sounds can be heard—or not heard—within our own borders.
Read MoreRead about Dayle Gaskarth’s experience running on Highway 3 as an Olympic torchbearer for the Calgary Olympics in 1988.
Read MoreBut many objects in the Galt’s collections are essentially "voiceless.” Find out what that means and why in our most recent Galt’s Vaults video with Kevin MacLean.
Read MoreLocal military historian Glenn Miller and Collections Technician Kevin MacLean discuss the many things that they have learned by examining this uniform.
Read MoreCollections Assistant Nicole Wilkinson discusses why handmade objects can make great museum objects full of connections and stories.
Read MoreCollections Technician Kevin MacLean pens a love letter to a special group of Galt volunteers.
Read MoreCollections Assistant Nicole Wilkinson is applying a cotton muslin sleeve to the reverse of a recently acquired Belgian tapestry in the Galt’s collection.
Read MoreCollections Technician Kevin MacLean explains why contemporary objects like CD Players are added into the Galt’s permanent collection as important pieces of history.
Read MoreAfter being separated in Lethbridge in the 1960s, how did a jacket and its original owners make their separate ways to the same community in the US decades later? It’s a mystery.
Read MoreCollections Assistant Kirstan Schamuhn talks about how the Galt Museum & Archives collects objects and what the difference is between passive and active collecting, using a recent donation of buttons from Lethbridge Pridefest as an example.
Read MoreIf you want other people to value your stuff, you have to put it at risk; if you can, put it into use so that the people visiting you in your home can associate it with you and they can associate themselves with it too.
Read MoreWe 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 MoreOver 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 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.
Read MorePainted icons donated to the Galt Museum & Archives from the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Holy Triniti.
Read MoreMaking needle books was a trend that began in the 1800s and grew in popularity until around the 1950s. These needle books were designed to hold the different needles a person would need for different fabrics and projects. Usually the needle book was made out of scrap fabric or a fun creative fabric. They were used to organize and secure needles.
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