Upcoming Event: Canada Day Culture Crawl
The Museum’s popular Canada Day Culture Crawl walking tour is back again on July 1st! Historian Harry Kruisselbrink and Museum Curator Kira Westby lead participants on a walk through Smithers history, starting at the Central Park Building at 10am and finishing at the GTP/CN rail station. Highlights include a stop at the fire station, the […]
Upcoming Event: “Behind the Scenes” Open House
The Bulkley Valley Museum welcomes community members for an exclusive peek “behind the scenes” at our Open House! Drop in the Museum on May 24th and 25th from 12-7pm for a tour of our back room artifact storage area and to learn about museum curation and digitization with our staff. For more information about this event […]
Featured Artifact: Patent Medicines from the BV Museum Collection
Famous (or infamous) for their flashy advertisements and curative promises, patent medicines had their hey-day of popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Patent medicines existed to cure or prevent nearly every thinkable ailment: from pimples, to cancer. Many claimed to be effective against a large range of ailments, both internal and external. Patent […]
Summer Employment Opportunities
The Bulkley Valley Museum is seeking applicants for its summer student positions of Collections Assistant and Digitization Technician. Please note that the number of positions and the duration of employment are conditional on final approval from the funding bodies, Young Canada Works and Canada Summer Jobs. Salary: $13/hour Hours: 35 hours/week for up to 16 […]
Notice of Annual General Meeting – Rescheduled to April 18th
Due to lack of attendance the Bulkley Valley Historical & Museum Society has rescheduled its Annual General Meeting for fiscal year 2017 on April 18th at 7pm at the Old Church. Members of the public are encouraged to attend. To become a member of the Society, or for more information please contact the Museum at […]
Winter 2018 Updates
2018 is shaping up to be a somewhat off-beat year for the Museum so far! In January the Museum closed its exhibit galleries while we completed an overhaul of our museum storage areas. Brand new mobile shelving units were installed in both the Museum’s artifact and archival storage spaces, increasing our available storage capacity […]