To celebrate International Youth Day, August 12, 2021, The Galt Museum & Archives will be unveiling a new mural hosted on its south patio that has been designed by three young local artists: Sydney Whiting, Kyra Peake, and Grace Fletcher.
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The Galt Museum & Archives has officially unveiled the Community Mosaic. The project celebrates the diversity of people who have called southern Alberta home.
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In 2010, the Galt's staff began actively reviewing the collections and assessing objects that do not fit the collecting mandate of southwestern Alberta. Staff identified numerous objects in the collection that could be "qualified for deaccession."
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We at the Galt Museum & Archives, a settler-colonial cultural memory institution, extend our deepest condolences to the families and communities who were forced to endure Indian Residential Schools and had loved ones taken from them.
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The Canadian Museums Association has awarded the Galt Museum & Archives with an Award of Outstanding Achievement for Stewardship of Collections.
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The Galt is asking for residents to submit their portraits to be featured in a new Community Mosaic to be installed on the museum’s north-facing windows to welcome every visitor.
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Winter is here. Get outside and enjoy the Fort’s special winter season on weekends and select days throughout December.
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Parents and guardians looking for an alternative to the traditional trick-or-treating will be happy to know that there will be physically distanced trick-or-treating from room-to-room at Fort Whoop-Up on October 30 and 31.
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The Galt Museum & Archives is offering back-to-school photos on October 2 for the 2020–2021 school year.
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The fall exhibit schedule at the Galt is packed with phenomenal exhibits and online presentations.
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Fort Whoop-Up’s interpretive season was so popular with visitors that it has been extended to include weekends through the month of September.
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Parents and caregivers who are doing at-home learning with their children in the fall can now book the Galt's curriculum-based education programs for their at-home learning cohort groups.
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New local partnership features Southern Alberta producers while promoting Lethbridge’s local attractions
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Fort Whoop-Up, partnering with New West Theatre, the Friends of the Galt, and Dunlop Ford, are pleased to present a new “Trader Tales” fundraising event at Fort Whoop-Up on July 17 and August 21, 2020.
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Fort Whoop-Up will once again open its gates to visitors on June 30, 2020, albeit, in a socially distanced, COVID-19 conscious fashion.
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The Galt Museum & Archives will once again open its doors on June 2, 2020.
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the Galt Museum & Archives and Fort Whoop-Up have been greatly expanding the selection of items from their stores that are available for purchase online.
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With the need for physical distancing and the temporary closure of the facility to the public, the Galt has been working on redeveloping the content of exhibits that were researched and curated by Galt staff and volunteers for online audiences.
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The Galt Museum & Archives offers online access to over one hundred thousand records of objects from our collection of over a million items, including 85,589 photographs and 13,500 artifacts.
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My name is Darrin Martens and I am the Galt and Fort Whoop-Up’s new CEO/Executive Director. I have been on the job for a week familiarizing myself with your wonderful museum and fantastic attraction. While we are prevented from saying hello in person here at the Galt Museum & Archives, I wanted to say hello to the community.
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