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Behind Racism
Behind Racism

Adults

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Galt Museum & ArchivesApril 9, 2025AdultsComment
Memory Boxes
Memory Boxes

This is where the Memory Box excerpt will go.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorDecember 11, 2024Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 5
What’s the Story?
What’s the Story?

Join us for an interactive guided tour of the exhibit to learn about the Buffalo Treaty and the ways that the buffalo contribute to all aspects of health.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorSeptember 5, 2024Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9Comment
Game Play
Game Play
School ProgramsGalt Museum & ArchivesSeptember 5, 2024Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Comment
The Buffalo Treaty: Keystone to Wellness School Program
The Buffalo Treaty: Keystone to Wellness School Program

Join us for an interactive guided tour of the exhibit to learn about the Buffalo Treaty and the ways that the buffalo contribute to all aspects of health.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorFebruary 22, 2024Galt Museum & ArchivesKindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, HighschoolComment
Adventures in Archives
Adventures in Archives

Take a behind the scenes tour of the Galt Museum. Meet museum professionals and learn how historians uncover the past and persevere it.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, HighschoolComment
Building Bridges
Building Bridges

Learn about the history and science behind the world's longest tallest trestle bridge while viewing it from the Galt Museum. Then challenge your students to build their own bridge across our model coulee.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 3Comment
Blackfoot People's Voices
Blackfoot People's Voices

This program promotes respect and connects the past to the present as students are introduced to the history, culture and worldwide view of the Blackfoot people.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Kindergarten, Preschool, Grade 9, HighschoolComment
Christmas Past
Christmas Past

Celebrate Christmas like a pioneer! Students will create homemade toys that filled stocking across the Prairies over 100 years ago. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, PreschoolComment
Coming West
Coming West

Learn about Alberta's complex immigration story including the National Policy and immigration legislation.  

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 7Comment
Discover the Diversity
Discover the Diversity

This hands-on program allows students discover the cultural diversity that makes up southern Alberta. Written to complement the Grade 2 Social Studies curriculum. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, Preschool, Grade 3Comment
Great Citizens
Great Citizens

This program highlights some of the famous and not so famous people from southern Alberta who helped shape our community . It focuses on the characteristics that made these people great: hard work, courage, dedication, compassion, honesty and more.

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UncategorizedMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 1Comment
How the Town Ticks
How the Town Ticks

Students will debate a proposed bylaw on the Curfew Bell to assist them in understanding how municipal governments worked in 1909 and the present. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 6Comment
Immigrant Voices
Immigrant Voices

Using biographies, stories, photographs and other primary sources this program examines the experiences of people who came to southern Alberta. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 5Comment
Meet the Galt
Meet the Galt

Hello, Museum! Stories, hands-on activities and exploration highlight this introduction to the Galt Museum. The focus of this program shifts depending on temporary exhibits but promises to show students how much fun a museum can be while asking them to think about how we learn about the past.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, PreschoolComment
Prairie People | Saokitapi (so-key-da-bee)
Prairie People | Saokitapi (so-key-da-bee)

What was it like to live in a sod house? How did people do laundry with no running water? Consider the everyday lives of pioneers in southern Alberta and churn some butter during this classic program.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, PreschoolComment
Race for Resources
Race for Resources

The race is on! Learn about the lives of coal miners and their families through oral histories, artifacts and a fast paced simulation. This program highlights the connections between history, natural resources and the economy through the topic of coal mining. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 4Comment
SimLethbridge
SimLethbridge

Working in six groups, students recreate Lethbridge on a map as they learn how and why Lethbridge developed as it did.

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 2Comment
Southern Alberta at War
Southern Alberta at War

Mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War by learning about men who served on the Western Front and their families who lived in Lethbridge. Take a trip down to the archives to read actual letters and dairies from the conflict. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9Comment
Then and Now
Then and Now

Explore change over time as we compare our own lives to the experiences of people in the past. Students will examine pictures, handle objects and hear stories which highlight the great change and consistency that has occurred. 

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School ProgramsMuseum EducatorAugust 23, 2020Galt Museum & ArchivesGrade 2Comment
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Galt Museum & Archives
502 1 Street South,
Lethbridge, AB, T1J 1Y4,
Canada
4033203954 info@galtmuseum.com
Hours
Mon 10 am - 5 pm
Tue 10 am - 5 pm
Wed 10 am - 5 pm
Thu 10 am - 9 pm
Fri 10 am - 5 pm
Sat 10 am - 5 pm
Sun 1 pm - 5 pm
 
 

Free admission for self-identified Indigenous visitors.

Phone 403.320.3954
Email info@galtmuseum.com

502 1 Street South
Lethbridge, AB

A partner of Tourism Lethbridge

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