Cabinet of Curiosities | Mind Your Head!
The Fernie Museum is proud to present Cabinet of Curiosities a video series investigating the stories behind our artifact collection from the safety of the home of Lindsay Vallance, the Fernie Museum's Collections Manager. This week's object is a bowl-shaped metal...
Cabinet of Curiosities | Burdock Blood Bitters
The Fernie Museum is proud to present Cabinet of Curiosities, a video series investigating the stories behind objects from our artifact collection. This week, we're taking a look at a half-empty glass bottle, mysteriously labeled 'Burdock Blood Bitters'. What is in...
Documenting Collections | Morrissey Internment Camp Walking Stick
The snake wraps itself leisurely around the cane, green scales gleaming. Its delicate red tongue flickers upward, as though forever looking for the hand that wields it. Above its head, crossed flags bar its way: one a Union Jack, the other a Canadian Red Ensign. Below...
Picariello and Lassandro Graveside Talk
Article submitted by Adriana Davies, Curator, The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello exhibit. On December 19, 2017, Justice Kevin Feehan was sitting in Queen’s Bench in Lethbridge, Alberta and a colleague drove him to the Galt Museum to see a travelling exhibition...
Documenting Collections | Murray Steelcraft V-Front Pedal Car
For as long as adults have been driving, kids have been pedalling. All the way back to 1890 and the dawn of the automobile, every make and model had its tiny, child-powered twin, from the Mercedes Benz to the Model T Ford. Like the first automobiles, early...
The Great War | Fernie’s Sacrifice
Britain and the Commonwealth declared war on the German Empire on August 4, 1914. Fernie, like much of the rest of Canada, responded with a wave of excitement and patriotic fervour. Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph MacKay opened a recruiting office on Victoria Avenue on the...
Call for Artists | Above Ground: Queers in the Kootenays
EXHIBITION DATES August 27th-September 4th 2018, Location TBA, Nelson, BC September 27th- October 14th 2018, Fernie Museum, Fernie, BC WHY The purpose for this art show is to highlight the work of queer and trans/gender non-conforming artists in the Kootenay region...
Documenting Collections | A Butter Churn
This is the first in a series of posts that will highlight the Museum's collections as we continue to evaluate, research, catalogue and rehouse the collections over the next three years. For most of us, it’s just butter: innocuous stacks of foil-wrapped bricks or...
Filumena | The Fernie Museum Goes to the Calgary Opera
Emilio Picariello was an adventurous and hard-working family man whose ambitions led him to challenge the law of the land for profit. On the other hand, he was well known in the community for helping the less well off. His contravening of the Prohibition Act,...
Fred Alderson – Hosmer’s Hero
It's December 9, 1910. At 7:10 pm, Fred Heale heard a sound. Pop. Not a boom, or a crash, as you might expect. Not a gout of flame or a roar of crumbling rock. Just a small sound, like a distant rifle shot on a windy morning. Pop. Then a gust of burning wind,...