Museum Plans First Nations Cultural Exhibits

Museum Plans First Nations Cultural Exhibits

Monday, December 21, 2009 at 13:40

 

 

Within a year or so, the Western Development Museum will house three exhibits with information on First Nations life.

 

All three will be part of the “Winning the Prairie Gamble” exhibit.

 

The exhibits will rotate among the museum’s four branches, but the main one will be set up at the museum in North Battleford, and will cover traditional First Nations education, treaties and residential schools.

 

Visitors will also be able to learn words in several First Nations languages.

 

The other two exhibits are on weather and leisure time.

 

Project co-ordinator Leslee Newman says they’ll also have First Nations components.

 

For example, Newman says, the weather section will feature “the things that you look for to tell what weather is coming: deep snow, a hard spring, that kind of thing.”

 

She says the leisure time component will teach visitors about First Nations culture.

 

Newman says the museum also has a story box to help teachers relay Aboriginal folk tales.