Pioneer Village Museum is a must see! The photos speak for themselves. If you visit Sundre and…read moredon't stop in for a visit, it would be a regret I would not want to live with!

Great free for nothing (donations appreciated) walk into yesteryear…read more Fabulous vintage wagons and tractors, as well as a couple cool old cars and trucks. Educational stuff in the barns as well.

From the owner: We are a seasonal living heritage museum located in the heart of Red Deer! Come visit us every day…read moreVictoria Day - Labour Day, 9-5, 7 days a week. Make friends with our animals on display, milk our dairy cow Lily, explore a blacksmith shop, and explore plenty more buildings and displays to learn what life was like on a farm like grandpa's. Admission is by donation. Check out our website www.sunnybrookfarmmuseum.ca for more information, special events and to find forms to sign up for our summer day camps or book birthday parties.

Highly recommend Historic Markerville Creamery Museum. Interesting self guided tour of old butter…read moreand cheese factory for $5, healthy roast beef sandwich and salad meal for $8 and "one scoop" of ice cream for $5! Great way to spend a rainy afternoon on the way back to E-town.

From the owner: Experience culture & history in this traditionally Icelandic hamlet. The Creamery museum is housed…read morein the original historic building, built in 1902, and offers guided tours of commercial butter production set in 1932. Afterwards, relax in the courtyard, enjoy Icelandic delights or your favourite ice cream. Explore the hamlet on an interpretive historic walk of the business sector, discover 2 more historic sites and enjoy the beautiful gardens. You'll agree this is Central Alberta's hidden gem!

You have to eat here. Mm-mmnm So many delicious flavours,…read morefrom such simple foods, love it!

A place to see all the animals you didn't see live in Banff National Park…read more We didn't see a lot of wild animals in our trip to the Canadian Rockies. Trout in Maligne Lake, pikas at Morraine Lake, elk on the Icefields Parkway, and bison at a ranch in the Kananaskis Valley. Here in the heart of Banff is a two story 100+ year old building, constructed out of Douglas Fir, renovated, so that the interior structure looks spanking new, with varnished wood beams. Entering the front door, and I feel like I'm in the center of a stage, with all the animals seated in the stands and bleachers, looking right down on me, with open eyes, ready to pounce! Individual airtight glass cases, to keep out destructive insects and live rodents, and keep the dust down. Wolves, lynx, elk, moose, bison, mountain lion, ox, beaver, bear, deer, mountain goat, owls, birds, and pronghorn sheep. Two stories, with the second floor being a corridor running along the sides, with a center gap, looking down on the displays. Many of these animals, I've seen live in Yosemite, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks. Today for the 150th anniversary of Canada, free admission throughout 2017. A great place to spend a few hours during our stay in Banff, under forest fire smoky skies, this first week in September.

One of the perks for running the Banff Marathon was free entry into the Banff Park Museum. It was…read morevery convenient since the race finished right at Central Park. So after the race, my friend and I stopped in here to check things out. Before we began looking around, the guy at the entrance made sure to let us know that some of the exhibits were over 100 years old and cautioned us not to touch any of them. There were 2 floors full of exhibits including a room with videos. A lot of the animals that we saw were ones you probably don't want to come across out in the wild! Overall I thought it was a museum definitely worth checking out.

The Whyte museum was named after Peter and Catherine Robb Whyte, local artists and philanthropists,…read more who created a museum where visitors could see the culture and landscape of the Canadian Rockies. Paintings of the original settlers, the Indians, and their clashes with the white men explorers in the 19th century. Building of the railway, including an interactive tunnel view. How the railroad tracks were laid through mountainous areas, and the effect of frequent avalanches. Picture of the golden spike where the trans Canadian railway was joined. No Chinese workers, who did all the hard work, in the picture, just business men in formal clothing, gathering around the railroad track. Early women tourists in their long ankle length skirts exploring the glaciers in pictures. Men and women of wealth in pictures showing their fancy dress for crossing the Rockies by rail. Cutaway view of a automobile from the 1920s, with a film of automobiles in the Canadian Rockies at that time. The Canadian Rockies contribution to the war effort in the world wars, including descriptions and pictures of heroic actions by locals fighting the enemy. The Canadian Rockies in the movies, including posters of 'Saskatchewan', and 'River of No Return'. Helicopter skiing in the late 20th century, where helicopters would ferry skiers to the top of mountains, to ski down. Mountain climbers going up mountains, with display showing how they slept in tents anchored off the cliffs. Great way to spend time indoors when Banff was suffocating under forest fire smoke. $10 per adult, $9 for seniors, and AAA discount. Wife had no objection when I paid for 2 senior tickets, even though she was not yet 65. You know you are getting old when the museum cashier doesn't ask to see identification with dob!

VERY SMALL MUSEUM IN BANFF…read more We recently visited the Whyte Museum located in downtown Banff. Admission is $15 adults, $12.50 seniors and students and free for children. There are free docent-led tours as well as a one hour Historic Banff Walking Tour (fee) and Historic Homes Public Tour (fee). No coffee shop on site but there is a very nice book and gift shop. This museum is a beautiful space but very small. The permanent exhibition hall is one large room featuring artifacts relating to the local Indigenous populations and the early history and pioneers of Banff. Without the docent-led tour of the special exhibit, Thick as Thieves, we would have spent less than 1/2 hour at the museum.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada…read more The museum is in the heart of DT Calgary and composes of four floors. First Floor - Museum kiosk, gift shop, access to downtown and some exhibitions in the hallways for the building/hotel/conference room. Second Floor - all the silly features from (assume) modern art. Features changed periodically (e.g. quarterly, monthly, etc.). Modern art is junk in my opinion but what does a guy who has a dual degree in History & Art History know about this stuff? Third Floor - Dedicated to First Nation(als) aka Native Americans/Indians. The main purpose I wanted to visit Glenbow and Royal Alberta up in Edmonton. I was curious how Canada as a federal government and general population viewed the genocide/diaspora for the First Nationals and unfortunately... It's not that different than how Americans treated them but why would it be? Fourth Floor - Random stuff and a women power exhibit. The woman exhibition was interesting with highlights focusing on a photographer who joined the dominant male explorers to venture to the Glacier and Northern Rockies in the early 20th. Her photography was sick~! The fourth floor was bleh aside from her corner. The museum had many other exhibits on various floors showcasing Canadian & Alberta fore-fathers. I may have my wires crossed w/ Glenbow & Royal Alberta so I apologize for that. I will update as I sift through my pictures to remind me what I just experienced. Access/Roads: A It's in DT. Parking: A Weekend was easy. Public parking everywhere for $10USD/$13 CDA. Distance: C DT Los Angeles is appx 1,600 miles away (~2,600 KM). Costs: A $13 USD/$18 CDA. Students, kids and seniors cost ~$9 USD/$12 CDA. This is a great starter place to learn about general Canadian stuff, Alberta History, First Nation issues and so forth. Worth scoping out as I was uber excited to visit. I spent over five hours so wear some comfy shoes, expect to walk around a lot and so forth. There is a convenient bathroom/washroom aka sh*tter on every floor. Additionally, organized spots to rest/sit for us disabled/terminal ill peoples. Safe travelings my friends and I hope your fears don't paralyze you to live. Consolidated photo gallery: https://www.facebook.com/SiRTurbo/media_set?set=a.10157283091752324&type=3 IG @cigarcpa www.cleeshyun.com

The museum is located in the heart of downtown and share the same building as the Telus…read moreConventional Center. I came on a Thursday night after 5 pm. Every first Thursday of the month is free admission sponsored by Servus. I had to take advantage of this offer. Regular price admission is $18 per person. Why pay when you can go in for free. Plus I am not a tourist so might as well visit on a Thursday. All exhibits/galleries are open on the free admission day. The museum is very specifically tailored to the First Nation history and history of Calgary. They do have an interesting section on geology: rocks, minerals, stones, geode and etc. That gallery was slightly out of place compared to the rest of the museum/items on display. The first floor is really the gift shop and museum ticket/concierge/info center. Second floor is the first nation artworks. There are paintings and a few pieces of artwork. Third floor is about the oil and gas industry. As well, as the first settlement and the history of Calgary. Fourth floor is more tailored to the British Army and a section on the history of Africa. Everything is well documented, comprehensive and well referenced in the museum. Expect to spend about 2 hours minimum here. Overall, I enjoyed my stay. I don't think this museum changes much and so it is really one time visit. Note that no big backpacks are allowed into the museum and would be required to be checked in.

I love to learn about Native American history (US), or First Nations People in Canada. I had high…read morehopes for this museum - it had some excellent artifacts and information posted. It's a traditional-type museum that is self-paced with still, quiet displays & dioramas. I'm not a fan of the mannequin-style dioramas because it feels a little creepy to me, but that's just my aside thing. I hope one day they will update their museum to have interactive elements and to modernize. I'm glad to support this museum with my entrance fee. We spent about an hour here browsing the displays and enjoying the space.

Museum about the native Canadian Indians, inside a building resembling a 19th century log fort,…read morecomplete with towers, near the center of downtown Banff. Lots of mannequins with painted faces and hands, covered with traditional native Canadian Indian clothing. These mannequins are not in display cabinets nor in dioramas with background settings, but just out in the open behind security ropes. Low budget from the 1970s. Display showing warriors hanging from their chest muscles from the ceiling, in a ceremony. Women weaving behind a small hut. Women washing clothes. An Indian warrior on horseback using a bow and arrow to shoot a bison. Indians herding horses, with a dog running aside. Warriors in teepee. Indian chief presiding over a gathering. Canadian Mountie and Indian warrior side by side with their horses. Displays of headdresses, papoose, stuffed animals such as mountain lions and bison. Crafts, artifacts, native artifacts of the first nations. Gift shop with free coffee, except that I'm not addicted to coffee, unlike most of my fellow Yelp friends. Would have like to have seen big display dioramas of battles in the French and Indian Wars, and other wars involving native Indians in Canada. No showing of massacres. Would I come back? Only reason to come here is that all outdoor events smoked out by the smog created by the forest fires, causing me to cough.

This is a historic home and garden first settled in 1905. Wealthy individual who started many…read morebusinesses in Banff. Period decor. Quite a number of mounted animal heads. Nice garden on the side of the house. Price is by donation. Worth a visit.

From the owner: Only 1 block off Banff Avenue, this Heritage Home museum offers a small oasis in this busy tourist…read moretown. Visit to tour the home, sip a cup of tea, sit in the garden, relax and enjoy.