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This summer, thanks to funding through the BC Tourism Climate Resiliency Initiative, we’ve been able to do some much needed work to our gardens. Among other things, we’ve built and rebuilt demonstration garden: our heirloom vegetable garden, where we’ve been …
The little narrow-gauge locomotive that welcomes visitors at the front gate of the Museum has been getting some much-needed TLC these past few weeks! His cab was falling off, and he was looking pretty decrepit there for a while! But, …
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy – do we have some BIG news for you today! Brian Reynolds, the amazing wheelwright in Manitoba who has been rebuilding our circa-1908 logging arch, has it finished! Rebuilt. Reassembled. Ready to …
Brian Reynolds, the Manitoba-based wheelwright who has been rebuilding the Creston Museum’s logging arch, has been sending us some pretty exciting progress pictures. Both wheels are now completely finished – wooden parts made and assembled, original steel tires heated up …
Dismantling the logging arch yesterday went really well, thanks to our awesome volunteers – Chris, Skip, David, Todd, Walt, John, Lance, and Paul. We’ve identified a few original pieces of eastern hardwood, surprisingly – most of the logging arch’s wood …
Here at the Creston Museum, we’re always receiving new donations of stuff connected to local history. One of our most recent donations is a collections of several dozen photographs, all from the 1940s to 1960s, and most of them we haven’t …
Seriously, getting to work in a museum is the best thing ever. I mean, where else do you get to talk to all sorts of fascinating people, get transported back in time through old newspapers and photographs, and play with …
