For information on costs and how to book check the FAQ and Booking info page.

Lethbridge schools, please inquire about our free busing program at time of booking.

Tours and talks on various other subjects are also available. Please contact the education department at 403.320-4248 or send an email for further information.

All Grades

Kainai Voices

This program promotes respect and connects the past to the present as students are introduced to the history, culture and worldview of the Blackfoot people.
Length: 60-90 minutes

2007-2008 Temporary Exhibit programs

Grade 4

Race for Resources

Highlights the interconnectedness of history, natural resources and the economy through the topic of coal mining.
Length: 90 minutes

Reading a Cemetery

Students become engaged in field work as they discover the history in the cemetery. (This program can be adapted for grades 5 and 7.)
Length: 90 minutes

Making Do or Doing Without

Encourages students to learn about the Great Depression in southern Alberta and Lethbridge.
Length: 90 minutes

Southern Alberta at War

Encourages students to learn about the history of World War II from a southern Alberta perspective and to identify how the citizens of Lethbridge and southern Alberta were affected by the war experience.
Length: 90 minutes

Grade 4+

Adventures in Archives

Takes students behind the doors of the Archives, shows them the resources available there and how to access and use them. This program highlights historical thinking skills and reading photographs and documents for information.
Length: 90 minutes

Grade 5

Immigrant Voices

Uses biographies, stories, anecdotes and primary and secondary sources to look at the various experiences of immigrants as they moved to southern Alberta and worked to make it home.
Length: 90 minutes

Water for the Prairies

Looks at how irrigation transformed the Palliser Triangle into the southern Alberta of today. The program encourages students to discover how irrigation has affected the history and development of southern Alberta and looks at topics as far-ranging as settlement patterns and immigration, recreation, the environment and more.
Length: 90 minutes