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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “What We’re Up To Now”

We Have Shelves!

Creston Museum January 21, 2023 Behind The Scenes, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

You may recall us talking about a new shelving project for the archives collection. Sorry if it feels like we’re starting to sound like a broken record – it’s just sooooo exciting to finally have a TON of space to …

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Exciting news! (About Shelves…)

Creston Museum October 29, 2022 Behind The Scenes, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Thanks to the very generous support of Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, Columbia Basin Trust, Creston Rotary Club, and private community donors, the Creston Museum has all the necessary funding to go ahead with an exciting archives shelving project. The Museum’s …

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Big Wheels – together again!

Creston Museum February 19, 2022 Behind The Scenes, Heritage Week, Logging Arch, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy – do we have some BIG news for you today! Brian Reynolds, the amazing wheelwright in Manitoba who has been rebuilding our circa-1908 logging arch, has it finished! Rebuilt. Reassembled. Ready to …

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It’s About Time

Creston Museum February 8, 2022 News & Articles, Remembrance Day, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Have you checked this out yet? It’s an interactive virtual program created by LiveHistory Shows, a history-theatre company that has toured museums and historic sites around the world. You may recall they came to the Creston Museum a few years …

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Museum Internship, Anyone?

Creston Museum November 23, 2021 Behind The Scenes, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

The Creston Museum has an unexpected opportunity to hire someone for a one-year internship here! We received funding for this position through BC Arts Council’s Early Career Development program, which normally requires us to select our intended intern ahead of …

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Working With Community

Creston Museum February 27, 2021 Behind The Scenes, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

The best part of my job is the opportunity it gives me to connect with so many community groups and individuals. It’s a great feeling, knowing that the resources we have here (collections, spaces, knowledge, and so on) can be …

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Archives Shelving Project

Creston Museum November 30, 2020 Behind The Scenes, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

These are a few photos of the Archives storage vault – the space where we house all the photographs, documents, newspapers, and maps that contain so much valuable information about the community and its  people. We use these collections all …

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Logging Arch!

Creston Museum July 17, 2020 Daily Dose of History, Logging Arch, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Sometime between 1908 and 1913, C.O. Rodgers brought a logging arch into the Creston Valley, for use in the logging operations for his Canyon City sawmill. A logging arch is a horse-drawn log-skidding machine. Two huge wheels – ten feet …

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How to use a logging arch

Creston Museum May 28, 2019 Logging Arch, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Seriously, getting to work in a museum is the best thing ever. I mean, where else do you get to talk to all sorts of fascinating people, get transported back in time through old newspapers and photographs, and play with …

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Whether the weather be cold…

Creston Museum August 18, 2018 News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot… One thing you can always be sure of is there will be weather, and you can be almost as sure that we’re going to be talking about it. It’s too …

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