Museum Musings

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.

When we post images on social media, it's hard to predict which will be particularly popular and start conversations.

As we've discussed in the last few weeks, countless women have contributed to Whistler's success over the past decades.

If you read last week's Museum Musings, you already know that October has been designated Women's History Month in Canada since 1992.

Museum marks October's Women in History Month