Museum Musings

With the beginning of the new year, we have been spending some time looking back at what 2018 brought to the museum (new records, new exhibits and many new donations of artifacts and archival materials) as well as looking forward to what lies ahead.

The past year has been one of great exhilaration, vision, and accomplishment for the Whistler Museum & Archives Society.

In the Whistler museum collections is one photograph of a New Year's celebration held at the Alta Lake School in 1937. We don't know who all of the people in the photo are, but a few names are written on its back, including the name of Jenny Jardine.

The holiday season has always been a hectic time in Whistler, as so much energy is spent welcoming and entertaining guests.

Working at a museum or archive can be a bit like being a detective. Piecing together evidence to solve historical puzzles, you often uncover connections between people and places you'd never expect.

Every week for the past year, we've shared a selection of photographs and captions from The Whistler Question on our blog Whistorical every Thursday. The collection (1978 to 1985) is catalogued by week, which has been very helpful.

You never know when you'll find a connection in Whistler's history between two seemingly unrelated subjects.

With the holiday season fast approaching we've started taking particular notice of holiday-themed photos in our collections.

Looking through Whistler publications from the 1970s, it's easy to see that building and design in Whistler has changed a lot over the decades.

November has traditionally been a time of arrivals in Whistler: the snow arrives in the valley (we hope) and new faces arrive for the upcoming season.