Transplanted Sunflowers: The Ukrainian Immigrant Experience in Southern Alberta, 1940s to Present, explores the Ukrainian experience in southern Alberta from the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. This temporary exhibition is inspired by the recent wave of Ukrainian immigration, a direct response to the latest Russian attack on Ukraine commencing in February 2022.

As southern Alberta’s only queer-mandated theatre company, Theatre Outré has spent the last decade carving out space for a thriving alternative scene in the prairies. Now, we celebrate their boundary-pushing theatrical productions, eccentric events, and unwavering devotion to Southern Alberta’s 2SLGBTQ+ community.

The Galt is thrilled to host the traveling exhibit, Broken Promises. Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, the Broken Promises exhibition explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s.

Through a combination of objects, archival sources, newspaper articles and oral history interviews, this exhibition portrays the American Hotel and its history as a contact zone from the 1950s to the 1980s through changing ownership, exploring patron interactions and examining police intervention.

Examine the traditional landscapes of the Niitsitapi through archival images from the Galt's collection. These southern Alberta sites are culturally important to the Kainai and Piikani peoples.

We live in a world of sound, but often don’t pay much attention to how it affects us on a daily basis. The Politics of Sound investigates the role of sound within social relations of power, to show how who we are determines what we hear.

For two years during the late 1960s, a teen coffeehouse opened at 1287 3 Avenue south. The Inn Purple was a place where teens and young adults could hang out, be artistic, and listen to music without adults.

Using moccasin designs as an identifier, this exhibit highlights Niitsitapi strength and resiliency.

The #HopeAndHealingCanada project created by Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers consists of a series of site specific art installations across Canada.

Guest Curator and Visual Artist Raeann Cheung explores the suffering that early immigrants endured as economic migrants in the mid-19th century, their contributions, and the intergenerational effects that followed through artistic interventions on archival images.

Although balancing service and cost has been an ongoing challenge, streetcars and buses have provided Lethbridge residents with mobility, and access to work, shop, play and engage with their community.

Rooted: How Trees Give Us Life explores the tangible and intangible benefits trees provide us on a daily basis.

Examine the traditional landscapes of the Niitsitapi through archival images from the Galt's collection. These southern Alberta sites are culturally important to the Kainai and Piikani peoples.

Explore photographs of traditional Kainai beadwork from the Glenbow Museum Archives, as well as stories of contemporary Kainai beadworkers as we honour and celebrate Niitsitapi language and culture.

Breathe. is a collection of traditionally crafted masks demonstrating resiliency through the 21st century pandemic.

The Church of Latter-day Saints has been a part of Lethbridge’s community for 100 years. Discover the many ways the LDS story is woven into the fabric of Lethbridge’s past as their tale is told through personal stories and photographs.

This exhibition casts a glance back to 1955, when the first television station opened in Lethbridge, and traces the evolution of local broadcasting since that time. Rediscover favourite programs and personalities, learn about broadcast technologies behind the scenes, and consider how community programming has changed over time.

Since the early 1900s the automobile has transformed the physical landscape and lifestyles of people living in southwestern Alberta. This exhibit explores the auto and the various forms of freedom that it represents—but also considers the impacts of car-centric living.

From Geisha to Diva tells the fascinating story of Ichimaru’s life through a collection of her magnificent kimono and personal effects.

This exhibition of James Brady’s photographs from Glenbow’s collections covers four decades, from the 1930s to 1960s, of both individual and community Métis and Cree life in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The photographs are evidence of Brady’s deep attachment and commitment to the dignity and rights of Métis peoples at a time of impoverishment and denial of rights by provincial and federal governments.

Over the last 129 years, Lethbridge has elected twenty-five mayors. Discover stories of these leaders of our community in the lead-up to our next municipal election.

Explore traditional Blackfoot food ways, and consider how eating preferences have changed in Lethbridge since the late nineteenth century. It will also look at some of the factors influencing those changes: social and cultural attitudes, what’s stocked on grocery store shelves, where food is coming from, how much it costs or how it’s packaged and advertised.

Discover Lethbridge as seen by Herald photographers over the past century, including Lloyd Knight, Ian Martens and Dave Rossiter.

Explore photographs of traditional Kainai beadwork from the Glenbow Museum Archives, as well as stories of contemporary Kainai beadworkers as we honour and celebrate Niitsitapi language and culture.

Explore more than 100 years of beekeeping history in southern Alberta, and learn about different managed and wild bee populations.

Where does our “stuff” come from? How has that changed over time?

Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope which he began in 1980 to raise funds for cancer research is a seminal moment in Canadian history. This exhibit will feature oral history interviews with the Lethbridge citizens who have organized the community runs, explore the familial connections that Terry Fox had in southern Alberta, and will examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the 2020 Terry Fox Run in Lethbridge.

For women, finding a good set of pockets in clothing is similar to finding a needle in a haystack—but this pocket dilemma is not new. The exhibit traces issues of gender and fashion through to the mid-twentieth century, exploring how pockets became symbols of independence for women.