Macrame plant
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Creative Community provides arts activities with a connection to local history and culture for adults and seniors, including those requiring accessibility on the second Tuesday of the month.
adults and seniors | registration not required | museum admission applies | free to members
Join us for a captivating lecture by Stéphane Guevremont on "UKRAINE AND THE WORLD: The International War." Explore the role of external powers in Ukraine's politics, from its independence to the unlawful invasion by Russia. Discover the global response and analyze the impact of foreign mercenaries, weak sanctions, and so-called neutral countries. Don't miss this timely and unique lecture!
Plus, this lecture marks the last weekend of our Ukrainian Transplanted Sunflowers exhibition. Be sure to catch it before it's gone!
adults and seniors | registration not required | museum admission applies, but members get in free.
Image courtesy Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao'pa
Come and join us for a spine-tingling and informative tour of the Galt Museum Hospital's fascinating history.
7:00–8:15 pm | adults and seniors | registration required | $10 per ticket, $9 per ticket for members | maximum 25 tickets sold.
Galt Museum & Archives staff pose for a photo on Orange Shirt Day
Image courtesy Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao'pa
Learn about Indigenous Heroes while creating your very own Orange Shirt Day tote bag. Creative Community is a Galt Museum & Archives program that provides arts activities with a connection to local history and culture for adults and seniors, including those requiring accessibility.
10:30–11:30 am | adults and seniors | registration not required | museum admission applies | free to members.
Galt Museum & Archives staff pose for a photo on Orange Shirt Day
Image courtesy Galt Museum & Archives | Akaisamitohkanao'pa
Learn about Indigenous Heroes and make your own very Orange Shirt Day tote bag with Hands-On History, an interactive program for children of all ages and their caregivers.
10:30–11:30 am | children and their caregivers | registration not required | no cost during Week of Truth activities.
Join Galt Archives Intern, Avery Raine, to explore the written memorials of Lethbridge’s past and what they can tell us about our ancestors.
Join Galt Archives intern Avery Raine in exploring how funerals and mourning practices have changed since the early twentieth century, and in attempting to answer an age-old question: why don’t we talk about death?
Follow the return of a modern giant as a world power with an analysis of historical developments from the medieval era to today. Discover the rise of Russia under the Tsars, and the dominant presence of the Orthodox Church in politics.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
Join photographer Mark Vitaris for a discussion about his book Borderlands. The book is a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas.
Journey with us through Lethbridge's Chinatown. We will explore the vibrant history of riots, rumours, places and faces as we get to know the families who lived and worked here.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
From a couple of tents to a thriving city: join us as we wander through downtown Lethbridge and learn about how our city came to be what it is today.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
From a couple of tents to a thriving city: join us as we wander through downtown Lethbridge and learn about how our city came to be what it is today.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
Only the toughest of shrubs and trees have managed to survive in southern Alberta and they in turn provide refuge for an array of other biodiversity. Our thirsty communities depend on these same scarce waters and we struggle to balance our water demands against the needs of the trees.
Journey with us through Lethbridge's Chinatown. We will explore the vibrant history of riots, rumours, places and faces as we get to know the families who lived and worked here.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
From a couple of tents to a thriving city: join us as we wander through downtown Lethbridge and learn about how our city came to be what it is today.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
This presentation will delve into the history of transit planning and the challenges that it has faced in an effort to make clear why we need to take significant steps in revamping the way we look at transit as well as how we plan and fund it.
Join us for a fun week filled with activities, crafts, stories, games and behind-the-scenes tours celebrating southern Alberta history!
Relive one of the most extravagant periods in human history with a fascinating look at the Roaring Twenties in Alberta. Witness some of the most powerful changes in modern times regarding women, culture, sexuality and society as a whole right after the end of the Great War.
Journey with us through Lethbridge's Chinatown. We will explore the vibrant history of riots, rumours, places and faces as we get to know the families who lived and worked here.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
From a couple of tents to a thriving city: join us as we wander through downtown Lethbridge and learn about how our city came to be what it is today.
In this talk, Dr. Ash Rossiter describes how Britain maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf in the decades before its withdrawal from the region in 1971.
From a couple of tents to a thriving city: join us as we wander through downtown Lethbridge and learn about how our city came to be what it is today.
Trade in the modern life of 2022 and step back into the 1800s. Life and Labour of a Fort Trader is an extended tour of Fort Whoop-Up from our traders’ perspective.
