Galt e-Newsletter July 15, 2007
 

JULY BULLETIN

Meet Fort Whoop-Up's Scarlet Ambassadors around the noon hour each Wednesday through Friday in July and August as they ride by on the Galt Museum grounds.

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Galt Museum now an AMA Recognized Museum

 

Archives department launches new corporate membership

$500/year | benefits include
  • recognition in the Archives brochure
  • free photocopying
  • a 10% discount on all other copy work

For details, please contact
Archivist Greg Ellis

Galt Board and staff welcomes new CEO

Susan Burrows-Johnson began her new role on July 9. She has an extensive background in senior management of charities. Her educational background includes post-secondary education in history, public relations, communications and management. Susan had recently started the first year course work at the Alberta College of Art and Design, before moving to Lethbridge.

The CEO/Executive Directorship at the Galt will be her fourth posting in this kind of position, although in different fields ranging from children and youth to health and wellness. Susan has been a volunteer somewhere since she was sixteen and believes in the participation of volunteers in building our community. Susan and her husband have three boys, age 17.5 to 22 years old, and one collie. She likes to cook, camp and try to paint landscapes.

MUSEUM STORE

Retailer of Ammolite, official gemstone
for the City of Lethbridge >>

 

EXHIBITS >>

EXHIBITS

UNTIL Sun SEP 16.07 | 4:30 pm

SPECIAL PACKAGES AVAILABLE

ADMISSION PACKAGE $27.95 $45 value

  • Museum admission for two
  • Copy of The Vanishing Landscape exhibit catalogue
  • $5 coupon to Mocha Cabana
GETAWAY PACKAGE $115 $148 value
  • Museum admission for two
  • The Vanishing Landscape exhibit catalogue
  • $10 coupon to La Bella Notte
  • PLUS 1 night Accommodation at the Days Inn Lethbridge - home of the world's largest indoor mural, Home on the Range!

Nitsitapiisinni: Stories and Spaces
exhibit now open in Discovery Hall

Five Kainai students became the experts on June 21, National Aboriginal Day, when their photographs were unveiled in the Kainai Arbour and they shared their knowledge of native plants with local students.

project details >>

 

HOURS OF
OPERATION

Viewing Gallery
Discovery Hall
Museum Store

10:00 - 6:00 daily
until SEP 15

10:00-4:30 daily
SEP 16 - MAY 14

CLOSED
Christmas Day
New Year's Day
Easter Sunday

PROGRAMS AND EVENTS >>

Wednesdays | 7:00 - 8:00 pm

Wild Tales on Park Trails

The parks are so big they require two interpreters: one to cover natural history, the other human history! A series of free park walks offered in July and August in collaboration with the Helen Schuler Coulee Centre.

Thursdays | 7:00 pm

Cemetery Tours

Ticket holders will enhoy these historic walking tours showcasing the history of local cemeteries, biographies of local citizens, and the meaning behind graveyard symbols and practices. Suitable for all age groups.

Check our great line-up of
self-guided and weekend tours too

details on all tour programs >>

  

Tue JUN 26 | 7:00 pm

Hagell al Fresco

Create panoramic pen and ink drawings using a kalam - a pen traditional to India - to explore the textures of the coulee landscape in the manners of E.F. Hagell and Vincent Van Gogh.

Instructor: Mary-Anne McTrowe

MAX 12 participants | *Must register
at 403.320-3954

program details >>

  

Tue AUG 21 | 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Scenic Plaza
Whoop-Up Days BBQ

Enjoy entertainment, beef-on-a-bun, activities for kids, History in Motion and more following the Whoop-Up Days parade. All proceeds to charity!

Fri SEP 14 | 4:00 - 11:00 pm

Galt Beer Tasting

Tickets on sale AUG 15



details on all events >>
     
     

National Fair

Congratulations to the organizers and volunteers of the very successful National Historica Fair held in Lethbridge July 9-16. Over 160 students from across Canada participated in the history camp and presented their projects at the National exhibition. During their stay, they explored the Galt Museum & Archives, Fort Whoop-Up Interpretive Centre, Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden, Frank Slide Interpretive Centre, Bellevue Mine, Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and Writing-on Stone Provincial Park, and met new friends! Read their accounts here >>

 

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