Tips and Tricks from the Archives: Recording Information on Digital Photographs
An important part of preserving a family's history is identifying people and places in our family photo albums. Join Archives Assistant Bobbie Fox to learn some of the best practices for recording vital information on *your* digital photographs.
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Local military historian Glenn Miller and Collections Technician Kevin MacLean discuss the many things that they have learned by examining this uniform.
Collections Assistant Nicole Wilkinson discusses why handmade objects can make great museum objects full of connections and stories.
Collections Technician Kevin MacLean pens a love letter to a special group of Galt volunteers.
Collections Technician Kevin MacLean explains why contemporary objects like CD Players are added into the Galt’s permanent collection as important pieces of history.
After 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.
Collections 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.
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.
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?
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.