Galt Museum & Archives Unveils New Mosaic

The Galt Museum & Archives has officially unveiled the Community Mosaic. The project celebrates the diversity of people who have called southern Alberta home.

Graham RuttanJuly 19, 2021Galt Museum & ArchivesMosaic, Community, Entrance, Museum, Lethbridge, Southern AlbertaComment

Deaccessioning at the Galt

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."

CollectionsKirstan Schamuhn July 13, 2021Galt Museum & ArchivesDeaccession, Collections, MuseumComment

Statement on Residential School Gravesites

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.