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Digital Museum Records: The WDM and the National Inventory Project
January 12, 2026
Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre
By Kaiti Hannah, Curatorial Associate Recordkeeping is a vital part of museum collections management. Before computer-based databases, keeping, updating and referring to artifact records meant manually sifting through files and…
Historical Research at the WDM
August 7, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre
As a human history museum, our research methods are rooted in best practices in traditional archival research, in new and emerging standards in community-engaged scholarship and in exciting advances in…
Behind The Scenes in Collections Storage – Improving Artifact Storage
January 14, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre
The Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre is embarking on a large-scale collections project to implement critical upgrades in artifact storage to meet fire code regulations. This work will ensure that…
Digitizing Artifacts at the WDM
December 27, 2023
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
On October 4, 2023, a few WDM staff members spent a morning at the University of Saskatchewan’s Digital Research Centre to make high-resolution scans of 19 large posters from our…
Summers of Scanning and Finding Silences in the Archive: Part Two
December 18, 2023
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
The Western Development Museum (WDM) is pleased to be an institutional partner on the Building London with Canadian Resources: An Immersive History for Learning the Limits of the Earth’s Carrying…
Summers of Scanning and Finding Silences in the Archive: Part One
December 11, 2023
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
The Western Development Museum (WDM) is pleased to be an institutional partner on the Building London with Canadian Resources: An Immersive History for Learning the Limits of the Earth’s Carrying…
Behind the Scenes: Assessing WDM Artifacts in Storage
April 11, 2023
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
Since 1949, the Western Development Museum has been collecting artifacts from across Saskatchewan, Canada and the world. Thousands of these artifacts are being used in exhibits at our four WDM…
Marvel Houston Second World War Scrapbook
November 28, 2022
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
This scrapbook from the Second World War was made by Marvel Houston (née Paul or St. Paul). Marvel Paul was born in Meadow Lake and raised in North Battleford. It…
The Great Adventure and Its Great Consequences
November 11, 2022
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
Over the course of the First World War, more than 40,000 men from Saskatchewan enlisted in the war effort. There were several factors that encouraged them to sign up. Propaganda…
The 50th Anniversary of Boomtown Street, 1972 – 2022
November 2, 2022
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
This summer marked 50 years since the Western Development Museum Saskatoon moved to its current location and opened “Boomtown Street” – providing years of memories and a sense of wonder…
