Western Development Museum News

The Western Development Museum in partnership with Spirit Wrestlers Productions and the University of Saskatchewan is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence…

Calculators are handy tools that today most people carry around in their pockets in the form of smartphones. However, there is a long history of tools to help people add…

This Fall the WDM North Battleford undertook a big move! For many years, a little brick building has sat at the west end of the Heritage Village. The building is…

Artificial limbs have been used for much of human history. The earliest known example of a prosthesis is a toe found on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. There are written records,…

August 13 is International Lefthanders Day, a day to recognize people who use their left hands in daily life. In preparing for this day, we had planned to highlight one…

Many museums, including the WDM, have collections of old taxidermy. While it may not seem so at first, taxidermy from before 1960 can actually be dangerous. This is because of…

Just prior to the shutdown caused by COVID-19, WDM staff traveled to Regina to do some research. This blog post was written before the shutdown. Some staff from the WDM’s…

June 20 is World Refugee Day, a day to show support for and solidarity with people fleeing violence and oppression. To mark this important day, we’re highlighting some artifacts from…

Almost five years ago, the late Neil Richards, a well-known Saskatchewan LGBTQ2+ community historian and activist, along with staff from OUTSaskatoon, approached the WDM about a temporary exhibit on LGBTQ2+…

WDM-1973-S-21813: A Silverwood Springs crate used to transport bottles.   When Saskatoon was founded in the late 19th century, clean water was hard to come by in the city. There…