Museum Musings

Patio days are upon us, and what better way to spend a sunny summer evening than having a post-work brew at one of our local breweries? With craft breweries now popping up all over B.C.

Working at the Whistler Museum, we sometimes forget that not everyone has heard of the story of Rainbow Lodge and its owners Alex and Myrtle Philip.

With tomorrow (Friday, June 21) officially marking the beginning of summer, we're reaching the time when all the plans and preparations for the season come to life.

Over the past week, the Whistler Museum hosted various events as part of our fourth annual Mountain Bike Heritage Week, including a Post-Toonie Retro Bike Show & Shine, a bike maintenance course, a film screening of Ride to the Hills , and talks

Not only do we have a trail-rich valley to call home in Whistler, but we are also spoiled with choice when it comes to bike shops. This wasn't always the case.

Tomorrow evening (Friday, May 31) we'll be opening a new temporary exhibit at the Whistler Museum featuring the various ways people have found a place to call home in the valley (doors open at 6:30 p.m. and admission is free so be sure to drop by!).

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.