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Our weekly Saturdays at 1:00 intergenerational family program offers an opportunity to discover recent and not-so-recent history through hands-on and activity-based projects. Caregivers are encouraged to assist!
Free with admission.
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Galt
Museum Virtual Tour
Click on icon above to tour the Galt Museum & Archives. Select a room from the pulldown menu on the bottom left hand side. Use controls to move up, down or left and right. This virtual tour requires QuickTime. |
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Happy New Year! Saturdays at 1:00 returns in February.
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"A thrilling quest awaits you. Over the next several weeks challenges and activities will be set out before you to help you understand life in the Middle Ages and help us prepare for our quest. Are you up for the challenge? Adventure awaits...”
Sir George de Galt
FEBRUARY
09 Quest 1: Cover Thee Head In the Middle Ages, a person's social status and job could be known by the type of hat he or she wore. Be thee king or queen, lord or lady, knight or peasant ~ design your own hat in preparation.
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16 Quest 2: Friend or Foe? As we go forward on the quest, we will know the people we meet by their crest or coat of arms. By designing your own family crest, people will know it is you who made it to the end of the quest.
23 Quest 3: En Garde The quest ahead will be perilous ~ there may be dragons and ogres ~ we must be prepared. We’ll design our own swords and shields to take along.
01 Quest 4: Gather From the Four Corners Hark! The Herald reports the quest is more dangerous than we first thought. We will need help. Before the printing press, writing was done by hand and elegantly decorated. We’ll create an illumination of an ornamental alphabet letter and send out a request for others to join the quest.
08 Quest 5: From Spoons to Saints: Medieval Wood Carving We’ll be gone on our quest a very long time and must learn how to make our own supplies. Medieval craftsmen carved designs on almost everything they made ~ from household utensils like spoons to statues of saints in churches. We’ll look at different types of medieval wood carving and their uses. Presenter Carolla Christie will show how wood is carved; and we’ll colour a medieval style bookmark to take home.
15 Quest 6: Storm the Castle We have learned that our quest will require us to storm a castle. As part of our preparation, we will need to build and learn about these structures to be better prepared.
22 The quest will take a break for Eggstravaganza
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29 Quest 7: Dragons, Ogres and Unicorns Finally, the quest has begun! We must go beyond the area known to our map makers and into the unknown. Who do we meet on our travels? Learn about the strange and exciting creatures that populate the road.
05 Quest 8: A Challenge Thwarted! The way to the treasure is guarded and we cannot get past unless we can win the challenge. We must learn to play Medieval Games [such as Nine Men's Morris and Fox & Geese] so we can outsmart the guard.
12 Quest 9: The Treasure The treasure at the end of the quest has been hidden. We must work together to solve the clues!
With few supplies and far from home, Prisoners of War had to be creative and resourceful to survive. Items were reused and adapted. Tin cans were made into bowls, cups, trays and even stoves. Some of the items and skills used by Prisoners of War will be highlighted.
17 | Tin Can Candle Holder Many supplies shipped by the Red Cross were in tin cans and these cans were re-used by the PoWs. Try your hand at constructing a candle holder from a tin can.
24 | Knit to be Tied Volunteers would knit socks and other clothes for PoWs to help them survive cold winters in often poorly heated huts. Participate in some simple knitting activities.
31 | Newsworthy Canadian prisoners in Stalag Luft III printed a newspaper called Canada Calling pieced together from information from letters from home and other sources. Printmaking activities will show participants ways that papers may have been made.
07 | Wood you? German Prisoners of War in Lethbridge made a great many items out of wood: ships, tables and much more. Participants will make jigsaw puzzles out of popsicle sticks.
14 | Strike up the Band Most
camps had stage bands and singers and some even had full orchestras. Make
your own musical instruments and learn to play a song.
