Museum Stories

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  Behind the scenes of Wapaha Sk̄a Oyate: Living our Culture, Sharing our Community at Pion-Era, 1955-1969 Part 2: Printing Exhibit Panels

  We’re offering some behind-the-scenes videos of the building of the new exhibit at the WDM Saskatoon, co-curated with Whitecap Dakota First Nation, Wapaha Sk̄a Oyate: Living our Culture, Sharing our Community at Pion-Era, 1955-1969 Our second timelapse video shows the printing of the exhibit sign

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  Behind the scenes of Wapaha Sk̄a Oyate: Living our Culture, Sharing our Community at Pion-Era, 1955-1969 Part 1: Mural Painting

  We’re offering some behind-the-scenes videos of the building of the new exhibit at the WDM Saskatoon, co-curated with Whitecap Dakota First Nation, Wapaha Sk̄a Oyate: Living our Culture, Sharing our Community at Pion-Era, 1955-1969. First up, take a look at the process of painting the mural surro

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  Memory Mondays – Cities, Towns and Farms

  It’s time for our first #MemoryMondays of 2023! This month we’re highlighting four photos of cities, towns, and farms from the WDM’s Barton Collection of photos. Most of these photos show buildings from a distance, providing viewers a sense of how these buildings were located in relation to on

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  Memory Mondays – Home Interiors

  This month’s #MemoryMondays are highlighting photos of the interiors of houses from the WDM’s Barton Collection of photos. These photos all appear to be of houses that the Barton family lived in over the years. Some photos show the same room a few years apart, while others focus on one or two pi

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  Marvel Houston Second World War Scrapbook

  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 contains various pieces of Second World War memorabilia, including numerous cut-outs of newspaper cartoons. There are also documents rel

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  The Great Adventure and Its Great Consequences

  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 and social pressure encouraged eligible men to “do their bit” for King and Country. Many of them were first and second

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