Oui, c’est correct – nous avons maintenant un guide français pour vous aider à découvrir le musée de Creston! Il est rempli des objets les plus intéressants et uniques dans notre collection – et il vous donne un peu d’histoire …
15. Asking (and Answering) the Weird Random Questions
Often, when the phone rings, there’s someone on the other end saying they have a bit of a strange question. Usually, that turns out to be a request for an obituary or birth announcement. Which is really not that strange …
14. Unleashing the Tour Guide Humour
My career in museums began as a tour guide, and it will always (I hope) be the very best part of the job. I learned very early on how to tell a story that draws people in and connects with …
13. Accepting that Maximum Capacity Does. Not. Apply
I won’t quite say events are a highlight of the job – they’re a lot of fun, and a big part of how we connect with people, but they are also a lot of work and a lot of stress. …
12. Improvising…and finding out it works
January 2022: Danielle, a teacher at Adam Robertson Elementary School, asked if we can revise our popular “Shaping Our Valley” program for her class. The program was designed for Grade 4; she teaches Grade 7, and wanted us to focus …
11. Getting it Right…on the third try
Messing something up the first time around happens a lot more often than you think. For example, a couple of years ago I created a school program that was supposed to help Grade 4 students trace a family’s history through …
10. Panicking Because You Think You Got It Really, Really, Wrong
(But you didn’t) Back in the spring of 2020, we were dealing with the immediate impacts of the pandemic, trying to figure out how to open the museum safely, how to connect with audiences we couldn’t connect with in person, …
9. Illustrating a Story of (Inter)National Significance
Back in about 2010, we were doing a lot of research for an exhibit on Creston’s military history (more on that later). In the process, we learned about Jack Hall, a veteran of the Canadian Army in World War II …
8. Having a One-of-a-Kind Object
The logging arch is definitely a one-of-a-kind object, and that’s partly why it got so much attention going through the parade last year. But for the most part, a lot of what comes into small community museums is pretty standard: …
7. Stealing the Show in the Parade
In twenty-five years of working at the Creston Museum, it’s really only happened once (well, maybe twice, if you count the time Derry our Model T quit part way through and we had to push him…but that was really just …