Glenbow Museum
The Glenbow Museum in Calgary , the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta , has 8,600 m² of exhibition space in 20 departments. In total, the house has over a million exhibits .
history
The Glenbow Alberta Institute was founded in 1966 on the basis of an extensive handover of historical artifacts by the oil entrepreneur and lawyer Eric Lafferty Harvie (1892-1975). Having become wealthy through oil discoveries in 1947 and 1949, he began to build up an extensive collection on the history of Western Canada from around 1950, adding other areas of interest. A library and archive were added to the actual museum .
The director of the museum is Jeff Spalding , his predecessor was Mike Robinson.
Permanent exhibitions
Cultural history
By cultural history, the museum does not mean a general cultural history , but rather a historical and folkloric exhibition that presents the life of the residents of Alberta since around 1800, but without the First Nations , which are subsumed under the category of ethnology or are found in the art exhibition . 100,000 exhibits are available on this topic alone.
Ethnology
The ethnographic section offers pieces on the history of the First Nations , i.e. the Canadian natives, as well as exhibits on the Arctic region, but also from South America and the other continents. The two focal points here are the Blackfoot in southern Alberta and the indigenous cultures of the Canadian west.
Warriors
Similar to the cultural history and ethnographic departments, this department basically tries to give an overview of the entire world. Your title Warriors. A Global Journey Through Five Centuries is an extremely extensive attempt. Nevertheless, the approximately 26,000 exhibits are focal points in western Canada, Europe and Japan .
Rock Science (Treasures of the Mineral World)
The same applies to the mineralogical collection.
West Africa (Where Symbols Meet)
Five cultural groups from twelve West African countries are featured in the permanent exhibition Where Symbols Meet. A Celebration of West African Achievement presented.
Asian loan collection (Many Faces, Many Paths: Art of Asia)
The Bumper Development Corporation Ltd. made Buddhist and Hindu exhibits from the 18th century permanently available to the museum .
Art collection
The majority of the approximately 28,000 works of art come from the Northwest of America, as well as from the 19th to 21st centuries. Certain focal points are landscape painting, but also the art of the First Nations and the Inuit .
Mavericks (Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta)
In 2007, a biographical section was created under the title Mavericks , in which 48 people who are important for Alberta are presented with the help of numerous sources.
Library
The museum's library holds more than 100,000 media. The oldest works date from the 15th century and deal with horse breeding.
Archives
The Glenbow Archive is the largest archive not created by any provincial or federal government. He owns more than a million photographs, 350 hours of film material and 1,500 hours of voice recordings. The densest records cover the period from around 1860 to the 1990s. Collection areas were or are the areas of the First Nations , the Métis , cattle breeding and agricultural cultivation, the police ( Royal Canadian Mounted Police ), and industrial development. A separate help area for genealogical studies is offered.
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Remarks
- ↑ In accordance with the principle of provenance , the collection was kept closed and can be consulted using a separate search mask . In addition to the Glenbow Museum, he sponsored the Banff School of Fine Arts , the Luxton Museum , the Calgary Zoo and Heritage Park , but also Confederation Square and the Arts Complex in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island . His son Donald Harvie continues to run the Devonian Foundation that his father founded.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '42.1 " N , 114 ° 3' 39.9" W.