Curator's Blog
8th Annual HALLOWEEN HAUNT
We are hosting our 8th Annual HALLOWEEN HAUNT on October 31, from 5:00 to 7:30.
Last year we had over 550 trick-or-treaters and their parents visit us.
We are currently looking for groups to participate in our Adopt-a-Building Program. For Halloween we ask community, businesses or individual groups to ‘adopt’ one of the eight historic buildings. They are [...]
Movies Under the Stars
We are really exciting for our upcoming Movies Under the Stars event happening August 14 and 28. Due to licensing catastrophe’s we have had to change our movie choices multiple times. We apologise for any confusion or inconveniences this may have caused. The movies to be played will be Fantasia (1940) on August 14th and Phantom of the Opera (1943) on August 28th.
Riverboat Days 2009!!
Come out and celebrate Riverboat Days with Heritage Park Museum!
We have three different programs planned:
Royalty Look-a-like Contest
John Spearn’s “Songs for Canada” Tour
Riverboat Days Arts & Crafts Workshops
Read more about it….
Canada Day Celebrations!!!
Heritage Park Museum invites you to celebrate Canada’s 142nd birthday with us! Come join us Wednesday, July 1st from 11am-3pm as we celebrate with a fun filled day of non-stop excitement. Highlights include: live entertainment, BBQ, silent auction, scavenger hunt, royalty look-alike contest (chance to be in the parade), carnival games and kids races, Canada [...]
Mother’s Day Tea
We are looking forward to honouring Mothers on May 10th from 2:00 - 4:00 pm with a Strawberry Tea! We invite you to join us for an afternoon of good conversation, strawberry shortcake and music! RSVP by May 8th to curator@heritageparkmuseum.com or 250-635-4546 to book your spot!
Barkerville’s Theatre Royal Performs in Terrace
For the second year in a row Heritage Park Museum brings Barkerville’s Theatre Royal to town for a night of old-fashion family entertainment. On April 1, 2009 Barkerville’s Historic Town’s popular Theatre Royal cast will perform on the REM Lee stage in Terrace. Doors open at 7:00pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased from the George Little House, Don Diego’s and at the door. The cost is $15.00 for an adult and $10.00 for seniors and students.
2009
One of the projects that we are going to be working on this year is a Membership Drive. Heritage Park Museum has great benefits to offer including discount admission into the Park, discounts at our membership partners…
Our New Website
We are so excited to have our new website up and running! A HUGE THANKS to Adele Kirwer of www.blissfulgirl.com and Brandon Johnson of www.spadewerk.com for all their hard work, creative ideas and design. Not to mention making the site easy enough for me to update. I encourage you to check out their sites.
Local History Week
As some of you may know November 18 to 21 was local history week hosted by Heritage Park Museum and the Terrace Public Library. I was suppose to hold a book cleaning course teaching participants how to use 3 commercial products to do a basic cleaning on old books.
