What better time to explore Alberta’s past!� By offering a window to Alberta’s past, museums allow visitors to not only discover Alberta’s rich and diverse history, but they also play a vital role in preserving and protecting our province’s heritage.� The gathering of Alberta collections, memories, and stories is a living legacy and is interpreted in museums, galleries, and historic sites across Alberta.� Museum Month allows staff and volunteers to get creative, meet the public, and alert visitors to the challenges that museums face if they are to be institutions of service to society and of its development.� The museum and heritage community, of which the Heritage Community Foundation is a part, is committed to the preservation, study, and interpretation of natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible.�
The Heritage Community Foundation partners with the province’s museums to develop the multimedia websites that make up AlbertaSource.ca and we are grateful to them for the excellent work that they do.� Find out about Alberta’s museums by visiting www.albertaheritage.net – our tourism site.� Find out about Doors Open 2007 community events by visiting www.doorsopenalberta.com.� Lethbridge (May 11-12) and Leduc (May 12) kick off this celebration of Alberta’s architectural heritage and special places when communities around the province open their doors to the public.
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The Heritage Community Foundation has launched its first print publication, Carving Faces, Carving Lives: People of the Boreal Forest. This remarkable book by author and photographer Terry Garvin promises to be a valuable resource for all who seek greater understanding of traditional Aboriginal life and culture.
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