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The Confluence to receive Alberta Museums Association’s 2024 Leadership Award for Sustainability
Aug. 22, 2024 The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland has been awarded the Alberta Museums Association’s (AMA) 2024 Leadership Award for Sustainability. The AMA Leadership Awards recognize exceptional work and innovative thinking in the museum community, and winners in the sustainability category work to integrate the AMA’s Five Facets of Sustainability into their museum practices: […]
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GUNTER: Let’s hear more from the people before former Royal Alberta Museum is demolished – Edmonton Examiner
Aug 13, 2024 I admit to being of two minds about what to do with the old Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) in Edmonton’s Glenora neighbourhood. As both a history and architecture buff, I want to see the 1950s landmark preserved and a new purpose found for it. However, as a taxpayer I’m leery of yet […]
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U of L digitizing Blackfoot items that were put into museums – Lethbridge Herald
August 7, 2024. The University of Lethbridge New Media program has been collaborating with the Blackfoot Confederacy since 2018 to digitalize some materials which were removed from the Blackfoot people and put into museums at the beginning of the 20th century. Christine Clark, assistant professor for the Faculty of Fine Arts, says it has been […]
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New future for old Royal Alberta Museum site
Aug 01, 2024 Purpose-built as a museum in 1965, the former Royal Alberta Museum building in the Glenora neighbourhood housed numerous artifacts that inspired and educated generations of visitors. To help keep these positive memories going, a new green space is being designed to take the place of the old building, creating a new site […]
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Exhibit at Red Deer Museum highlights unidentified, yet unforgettable faces of Ermineskin residential school – Rdnews Now
Aug 1, 2024 A travelling exhibit now at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery (MAG) entitled ‘George Littlechild: Here I am — Can you see me?’, which is on until Aug. 17, aims to shine an even brighter light on the horrific realities of the residential school system. The exhibit’s 22 pieces are by […]
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Discover the Past and Make Memories This Summer at Fort Edmonton Park – Western Wheel
HOT SUMMER GUIDE: As the largest living history museum in Canada, it offers an immersive experience that spans the fur trade era, the pioneer years, the bustling streets of a 1920s community – and much more Fort Edmonton Park is a window into the past, inviting visitors to explore Canada’s rich history like never before. […]
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