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 and subtract, and later multiply and divide that predate any form of digital computing. The abacus is the earliest known form of a
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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 one of 16 artifact buildings in the WDM Collection. To better care for it and protect its important heritage elements, it was decided to m
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The Museums Association of Saskatchewan held their annual awards celebration virtually on September 30. The recipient of this years’ Young Professional Award is Kristine Flynn. Kristine is Programs and Volunteer Administration working at the WDM Corporate Office in Saskatoon. The Young Profess
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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, such as the Rig Veda, the oldest holy book of Hinduism, dating from 3500 to 1800 BCE, which tells the story of Queen Vis
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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 or two artifacts from the WDM collection that were designed for left-handed people. However, we soon discovered that there are none
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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 how older taxidermy was prepared and preserved. When preparing animals for preservation, one of the major concerns is how to
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Located on Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territories and the Homeland of the Métis, the Western Development Museum (WDM) is the largest human history museum in Saskatchewan. With a collection.more....
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