Dayle Gaskarth’s Olympic Dream Come True

Read about Dayle Gaskarth’s experience running on Highway 3 as an Olympic torchbearer for the Calgary Olympics in 1988.

ArticleHannah YuzwaFebruary 8, 2022Galt Museum & MuseumOlympics, Lethbridge, 1988, Calgary, Contest, Collections, Archives, DonationsComment

Exploring the Archives with Bobbie Fox

Archives Assistant Bobbie Fox explains how items get donated and accepted into the archives, and shows some newly donated materials.

Online PresentationBobbie FoxFebruary 1, 2022Archives, Research, Donations, Donor, Local History, LethbridgeComment

Galt's Vaults: Voiceless Objects

But 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.

Galt's Vaults, Online Presentation, VideosKevin MacLeanJanuary 21, 2022Galt Museum & ArchivesGalt's Vaults, Collections, Donations, Donor, Kevin MacLeanComment

The Galt's Vaults: Tell people why your objects are meaningful

If 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.

Online Presentation, Galt's VaultsKevin MacLeanMay 18, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGalt's Vaults, Video, Plates, Porcelain, Dinner, Food, Donors, Donations, CollectionsComment

Galt's Vaults: What is "Museum Quality?"

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?

Galt's Vaults, Online PresentationKevin MacLeanApril 27, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesMuseum Quality, Donations, Donor, Collections, Accession, Database, bear, Toys, Punkinheads, Eatons, Loved, Museum, Lethbridge, GaltComment

Greek Orthodox Objects Donated to the Galt

Painted icons donated to the Galt Museum & Archives from the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Holy Triniti.

ArticleGraham RuttanJanuary 14, 2020 Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Holy TrinitiGreek, Orthodox, Donations, Collections, Material, Icons, Church, Ukraine, UkrainianComment