Museum Musings

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.

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.