Glenbow Museum

The Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta, has 8,600 sqm of exhibition space in 20 departments. Overall, the house has more than one million exhibits.

History

The Glenbow - Alberta Institute was established in 1966 on the basis of an extensive transfer of historical artifacts by the oil businessman and lawyer Eric Lafferty Harvie ( 1892-1975 ). Become wealthy through oil discoveries in 1947 and 1949, he began from about 1950 to create an extensive collection on the history of Western Canada, came to more areas of interest. For the actual museum, a library and archives were added.

Director of the museum is Jeff Spalding, his predecessor, Mike Robinson.

Permanent exhibitions

Cultural History

With Cultural History Museum says no general cultural history but rather a historical- ethnographic exhibition that presents the life of Albertans since about 1800, but without the Indians, who are subsumed here under the Ethnology category, or find themselves in the art exhibition. Only 100,000 exhibits are on the subject ready.

Ethnology

The ethnological section offers pieces on the history of First Nations, so the Canadian Indians, also exhibits the Arctic region, but also from South America and the other continents. Here, the two priorities are the Blackfoot or Blackfeet southern Alberta and the indigenous cultures of Canada's West.

Warrior ( Warriors )

Similar to the cultural history and ethnography department this department attempts to provide an overview of the entire world basically. Your title Warriors. A Global Journey Through Five Centuries is an extremely spacious scale attempt. Nevertheless, around 26,000 exhibits form focal points in western Canada, Europe and Japan.

Petrography ( Treasures of the Mineral World )

The same applies to the mineralogical collection.

West Africa ( Where Symbols Meet )

Five cultural groups of twelve West African countries are in the permanent exhibition Where Symbols Meet. A Celebration of West African Achievement presented.

Asian Leihsammlung ( Many Faces, Many Paths: Art of Asia)

The Bumper Development Corporation Ltd.. presented to the museum permanently Buddhist and Hindu exhibits from the 18th century are available.

Art Collection

The vast majority of the approximately 28,000 works of art from the north- west America, and from the 19th to the 21st century. Certain Emphasis landscape painting, but also the art of the First Nations and the Inuit.

Mavericks ( Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta)

2007 was created under the title Mavericks a biographically oriented department in which 48 important figures for Alberta are presented with the help of numerous sources.

Library

The museum's library holds more than 100,000 media. The oldest works date from the 15th century and deal with horse breeding.