The Canmore Museum is undertaking several heritage planning and development iinitiativesniatives, including a heritage inventory update, the Canmore Mining Heritage Strategy, and a RE-ORG of its collections. Throughout today, join museum staff, contractors, and volunteers to get a behind-the-scenes look at the many projects being undertaken to protect, preserve and promote Canmore's rich cultural and...
Canmore has changed a great deal since it was founded in 1883, evolving from a gritty railway depot to a coal mining town and then finally to an international resort destination. As a center first for the railroad and the industry, Canmore was a place where you played hard and worked hard. Like many mining...
Canmore has changed a great deal since it was founded in 1883, evolving from a gritty railway depot to a coal mining town and then finally to an international resort destination. As a center first for the railroad and the industry, Canmore was a place where you played hard and worked hard. Like many mining...
Have you ever wondered how the rugged beauty of Canmore’s mountainous landscape came to be, or how the landscape has shaped the town? Get to know the science behind the area where we live and play a little better with geologist Percy Strong. Our geology and mining walking tour will give insight into the geology...
Have you ever wondered how the rugged beauty of Canmore’s mountainous landscape came to be, or how the landscape has shaped the town? Get to know the science behind the area where we live and play a little better with geologist Percy Strong. Our geology and mining walking tour will give insight into the geology...
Have you ever wondered how the rugged beauty of Canmore’s mountainous landscape came to be, or how the landscape has shaped the town? As our last Membership Monday before we break for the summer, we will explore the local geology and get to know the science behind the area where we live and play a...
Get your magnifying glasses ready! The Canmore Museum has many tiny objects in the collection, like pins and buttons. Join us as we work to explore our tiniest objects and methods for storing, labelling and preserving the tiniest treasures! Masks wearing is encouraged by program participants. ABOUT THE PRESENTER Mercedes Cormier brings 8 years of...
Join us as we explore our new Canmore Museum App. Museum staff will walk members through downloading the app onto their phones, the various features of the app, and get a chance to preview the Historic Downtown Walking Tour on their phone or other smart device. The app goes live June 1. The Canmore Museum...
Put your sleuthing cap on! We need your help identifying and building context around some of our unidentified photos. This introduction to our summer-long Questions of Identity Community Gallery exhibit will give insight into some of the identification issues archives face in documenting community history. Join us in for this drop-in Community Day program as...
Your story matters! Join Sarah Knowles and local author, photographer, and political analyst Stephen Legault for a discussion about how to capture and write your personal or family history. Writing your story for posteriety, for museum archives and local history books serves as an important way for researchers, historians and museums and archives to understand...
The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games, was a multi-sport event held from February 13 to 28, 1988, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The skiing events were held west of the city at the Nakiska ski resort in Kananaskis Country and at the Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park in Canmore. Join...
While men’s stories are told in detail, women are often stereotypically represented in objects related to their traditional social roles, limited to the home, domestic duties, and childrearing. Through this narrow depiction, museums have done a disservice to the real history of women’s contributions to society. Join us as we search the Canmore Museum’s collection...
