Museum Musings

In 1986, Whistler held its first Whistler Adventure Film Festival (WAFF), an event not all that different from the Whistler Film Festival's sixth annual Adventure Film Series that took place this past weekend as part of GO Fest.

We love newsletters at the museum. They're a great way of keeping interested parties up to date and sharing information and, when donated to the archives, are a great record of changes to an organization over time.

The Whistler Museum's archive houses many documents, printed material, films, oral histories, and photographs from Whistler's rich cultural past, from the arrival of some of Whistler's earliest pioneers to the journey of hosting the Olympic Games.

Hearing the name Alpine Lodge, many people may assume it refers to a lodge located in the alpine or in the neighbourhood of Alpine Meadows.

The integral role Jane Burrows played in the founding and operations of the Whistler Question , Whistler's first newspaper, came through clearly at the opening of the Whistler Museum's temporary exhibit in September 2017 featuring photographs from th

Last Thursday, April 11, the museum had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ian Spooner of Acadia University for his presentation on environmental change in Alta and Lost Lakes.

As the museum's collection grows, so too does our understanding of the people who made Whistler's early resort days possible. Some names, such as Myrtle and Alex Philip, are already well known while others are far more obscure.

April might seem a bit early to be thinking of summer; there is still snow melting in parts of the valley and you're just as likely to see someone walking through the village carrying their skis or board as you are to see a person biking along the Va

For this week's "Museum Musings," I decided to write about something that has always defined Whistler for me.

This year marks a few important anniversaries for ski racing on Whistler Mountain: it has been 40 years since the ski hill almost hosted the World Cup in 1979 before it was cancelled due to weather and safety concerns, and it is 30 years since Rob Bo