In the Fernie Museum's winter exhibit, the Fernie Spinners and Weavers Guild looks at fashion through the lens of sustainability and showcases how the natural fibre arts have a direct role to play in the growing Slow Fashion movement. Content encourages viewers to...
MICHAEL HEPHER | IN THIS TOGETHER Friday, June 1st - September 4th, 2022 FERNIE MUSEUM GALLERY | 591 2ND AVENUE INTRODUCTION: Using the catalyst of the Fernie based mural “All Kinds of Beauty”, Michael Hepher was honoured to receive a 2020 grant from the Columbia...
The Fernie Museum encourages you to journal your experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic. All of us are making history every day as we experience these current events, and it is important that we value those experiences enough to document them. Journaling is a great way...
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,...
This is the story of one of Fernie's ghosts - the tragic tale of a young man lost in the 1902 Coal Creek Mine Explosion; the largest mine disaster in BC's history in which 130 men and boys perished. Stephen wasn’t more than a lick of a kid at 13 when he started...
Emilio Picariello is a character who captures the imagination. His entrepreneurial spirit garnered him many successful legal businesses. The rising tide of Prohibition, meant that bootlegging was a natural progression of “Emperor Pick’s” acumen. However bootlegging...
Finding the smoking gun ... A historian (and curator) wants lots and lots of archival material – documents, correspondence, newspaper accounts, diaries, journals, photographs, etc. – to consult so as to be able to tell a compelling story. The icing on the cake is if...