Heritage Workshop | Caring for your Personal Collections

Flatiron Building Museum 5005 50 Ave, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada

What treasures do you have in your personal collections? Are they being cared for in a way that improves their longevity? Did you know that VHS tape degrades up to 20% every 10-25 years? Or that the chemicals in most cardboard or plastic boxes can contribute to the deterioration of your photographs or documents? That […]

Heritage Workshop | Heritage and Rural Properties

Flatiron Building Museum 5005 50 Ave, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada

After the excitement of the Stones and Bones event we hosted in 2023 we realized that the rural part of our community is looking for resources to help them understand the heritage features found on their land! Our heritage is not confined to urban hubs and rural properties can be important cultural landscapes full of […]

Heritage Workshop | Caretaking of a Heritage Building

Lacombe Performing Arts Centre 5227 Calgary Edmonton Trail, Lacombe, Alberta

**Please note that this event has been cancelled** Do you own a heritage building? Do you have questions about what it means to designate a building? Are you curious about how the preserve the built history that is in your care? For our forth heritage workshop in 2024 we have teamed up with the City […]

Michener House Grand (Re)Opening

Lacombe Museum Street, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada

Michener House Grand (Re)Opening May 25th, 2024 | 1PM 5036-51 Street, Lacombe The Lacombe Museum invites our community to help us officially re-open the Michener House Museum after its year-long closure for renovations and upgrades. Join us for a brief welcome program, light freshments, and first looks at the new display spaces inside the Michener […]

Heritage Workshop | Early Lacombe: 130 Years of the Michener House and our Community

Lacombe Performing Arts Centre 5227 Calgary Edmonton Trail, Lacombe, Alberta

This will be the last heritage workshop before a summer break! More of a lecture than a workshop join us in celebrating 130 of the Michener House, and Lacombe, as we look back to the early settlement of our community. We will showcase the early settlement of Lacombe with photos from our collection, share stories […]