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Monday 9am - 5pm Tuesday 9am - 5pm Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 9am - 5pm

Claresholm & District Museum

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The Claresholm & District Museum and Visitor Information Centre is located at 5126 1st Street West (
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11/11/2024

Although the museum is closed for the season, today we remember the brave servicemen and women who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom. Our War Years exhibit houses many great artifacts and photos representing that time in our history and we share just a portion of that in this post - LEST WE FORGET.

10/29/2024

Museum staff and board volunteers getting stuff done - and having a ton of fun!!
Team work makes the dream work😊

10/18/2024

The museum currently has an opening for a Temporary Museum Assistant to help organize our off site storage facility. Please see add below for job details and how to apply.

09/09/2024

We hosted our last tour bus of the 2024 season this morning. Wonderful folks from all over the USA. We had 22 tour bus groups this season and all a real pleasure. A huge THANK YOU!! to the members of the Friends of the Claresholm and District Museum Society who helped host all the tours. Thank you also to all the tour guides and bus drivers for promoting and supporting us❤️ Looking forward to next year!!

08/31/2024

We are still OPEN this Saturday and Sunday 9 - 5, then closed for the season. If you’re in town visiting for the long weekend, or have friends or family visiting, come check out your museum, always something new to see.

08/27/2024

Final week before we close for the season, this Sunday, Sept 1st. Come tour the museum then take advantage of our end of season sale, with 10% off all items in the giftshop. Never too early to snag a few unique Xmas gifts 😜

08/26/2024

Hard to believe it has been 15 weeks since we welcomed our summer staff Jenna and Tianna on board. Harder to believe, that in 5 short days, they both leave us to head to Edmonton to pursue their careers. Jenna to a practicum at an Edmonton Hospital and Tianna to her first year at Grant MacEwan University. If you get a chance, stop in to wish them well. Thank you Jenna, Thank you Tianna, so much, it has been a great summer ❤️

08/25/2024

Great turn out for the Historic Homes Tour this afternoon and a wonderful gathering back in the historic CPR station at the museum for tea and home made cookies. Everyone was raving about the tour, swapping stories of their experience and looking forward to next year. Kudos to Britney and Rob Robertson and Anola Laing for organizing the tour and to all those who opened their homes. Also to Bonnie Downey, Cynthia Wannamaker, Trina Watson and Betty H***e for serving up Tea and goodies on behalf of the Friends of the Museum Society.
Lastly, thank you to all who bought tickets, enjoyed the tour and made the afternoon a success!

08/21/2024

Farmers Market today!!
Alow yourself enough time to check out the exhibits in your museum and all the merchandise in the giftshop, where everything is on SALE 10% off. Then go load up with fresh produce and hand made goodies at the market.
Museum open until 5pm, admission by donation

08/20/2024

If you have been wanting to visit the museum, but have been putting it off, time is running out for this year! Only two more weeks until we close for the season, Sept 1st.
As an added incentive, all merchandise in the museum giftshop is on sale 10% off. Never too early to do a little Christmas shopping 😜

08/18/2024

REMINDER :
Tickets for the Claresholm Historic Homes Tour, August 24th, are on sale now at the Museum (station) and Claresholm Local Press. See the attached poster for details and sign up to explore the history of some of Claresholm’s older homes and some of the families who lived there. Proceeds from ticket sales go to support the work of the Friends of The Claresholm Museum Society.

08/17/2024

After 3 weeks of cancellations, because of the unfortunate Jasper fires, we are so pleased to welcome bus tours back to the museum.
We hosted 19 tours last year and are on track to surpass that this year. All great folks and we so appreciate them and their positive responses to the museum ❤️

08/15/2024

The Jim Mouser memorial rose garden, flower beds and all the annual flowers in containers are providing so much beautiful colour at the museum these days. You don’t have to come while we are open to enjoy the flowers, but if you do, you can check out the wonderful displays in all the buildings. Open 9 - 5 daily until Sept 1st.

08/14/2024

More pics in from our Fair Days float. What a fun morning! The happy crew accepting the award for best overall float in the parade from Mayor Brad Schlossberger (right) are Kandice Meister, Town Councillor on the museum board; Barry Gibbs, museum Board Chair; Bonnie Downey, president of the Friends of the Museum Society; and Bill Kells, museum Executive Director.

08/12/2024

We were so pleased to welcome and tour representatives from the Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta at the museum last Friday. The Foundation awarded a grant of $6,000 toward the restoration of the WWII British Commonwealth Air Training Base #15 Claresholm, Link Trainer. (Pilot flight simulator)
From the Foundation, pictured from left, are Board member Carmelle Steel, (Claresholm) and Executive Director Charleen Davidson.
Thanking them on behalf of the Friends of the Claresholm Museum Society, which applied for the grant and whose volunteers completed the restoration, is Society President Bonnie Downey.
It is very special indeed that this addition to our “Wings Over Claresholm” exhibit is being officially unveiled this weekend in 2024, the 100 anniversary of the RCAF.

08/10/2024

So much fun both building and entering our 2024 parade float for the Fair Days parade today. With “Country Fair” as the parade theme we mixed carnival with museum history by adding two mini link trainers to represent a fair ride.
So grateful and proud to have received first place in our categorie and also Grande Aggregate winner for the second year in a row. A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who added their skills and creativity as well as a ton of hours to build this amazing float!!

Address

5126 1st Street West (Hwy 2 N)
Claresholm, AB
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Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

1-403-625-3131

Website

http://www.claresholmmuseum.com/

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Claresholm & District Museum and Visitor Information Centre

Established in 1969, the Claresholm & District Museum has long been committed to preserving the history of this unique region of southern Alberta. The museum houses thousands of artifacts and archival documents relating to the history of Claresholm & District.

Artifacts tell many stories from Blackfoot culture, to the arrival of the railway, homesteading, farming and cattle ranching and the development and use of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan’s Service Flying Training School #15.

Recent additions include the Louise McKinney Gallery in the Station Building. This Gallery pays homage to Claresholm resident Louise McKinney and the Famous Five’s endeavours in the fight for women’s rights in Canada.