History
Lethbridge’s main history museum grew from local historical efforts that began in 1888 and from the city’s first museum, opened by Walter Gurney in 1944 in a former Board of Trade building in Galt Gardens. A civic museum followed in 1964, first housed in the former Bowman Elementary School and then moved to the renovated former Galt Hospital, where it operated as the Sir Alexander Galt Museum and Archives. Expanded in the early 1980s and again in the 2000s, it reopened in 2006 under its current name. By 2006 it held more than 20,000 artifacts and 300,000 archival items, and in 2022 it received the Blackfoot name Akaisamitohkanao’pa, meaning “eternal gathering place.”
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