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…
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…
While working on our ongoing Fire Code Compliance Project, Arden, one of our volunteers, and I were busy inventorying another batch of artifacts. As we went through the items, we…
Growing up, I loved looking through the Sears catalogue, especially around the Christmas holiday season. I made my wish list for the holidays, dreaming of the toys plastered on the…
The Western Development Museum (WDM) is the largest human history museum in Saskatchewan. With a collection of over 75,000 artifacts ranging from pins to locomotives and four locations in the province, the WDM shares the Saskatchewan story from the Treaties to the present day.
The WDM’s facilities are situated in Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territories and the Homeland of the Métis. The provincial boundaries for Saskatchewan also include Treaty 2, Treaty 5, Treaty 8 and Treaty 10 territories. Please visit WDM Reconciliation for more information.
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