Poppy Project, Collecting COVID-19, Emphatic Traditions, 4 Directions Indigenous Speaker Series, History@ Home and more.
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Special Announcement:

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Niagara Falls History Museum remains closed until further notice. 

The Poppy Project 

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The Poppy Project is a collaborative community art project by the Niagara Falls History Museum in conjunction with Stick'N Needles Guild. The Museum needs your help to create a large scale installation of knit and crochet poppies to drape over the exterior of the Museum for Remembrance Day. The public is asked to create these poppies at home or at the Museum at regularly scheduled events throughout 2020.

  • August 25, 2020 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • September 22, 2020 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Members of the Stick’N Needles Guild will be on hand to help participants with the poppy patterns. Coffee, tea and yarn will be provided at these events, but please bring your own needles or hook if you have them.

For more details, click on the link below:
https://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/events/the-poppy-project

COLLECTING COVID-19

We are seeking donations of items that will help us document this defining moment of our time.
Museums collect objects and stories that help people learn from and connect with the past. Niagara Falls is a beloved hometown and an international destination connecting with people both near and far. We want to hear from our friends at home and around the world with stories of the pandemic that relate to our City.
Some examples of things we might collect:
Photographs, drawings, paintings, signs, posters, scrapbooks, videos, poems, music, journals & letters postcards, flyers etc. You tell us what matters. Items can be digital or analogue.
Not sure how to start? We’ll go first… 
 
The Niagara Falls History Museum began “lockdown” on March 14 and by March 18th we (museum staff) learned we’d be working from home – beginning that very day! We made a plan to tie up loose ends making sure the museum buildings and collections would be taken care of and nothing was left to go mouldy in the fridge. Meeting (at a distance) one last time to make sure everyone was accounted for, we hauled our work totes to our cars. It felt like a moment for hugs, not knowing when we’d see each other again, but we could not. The last in-person words from our manager were helpful hints on where toilet paper might still be found to purchase (we’re not telling). An initial task that carried through this transition was engaging local photographer Jason Haywood to capture the sudden changes about our beloved city. 
 
If you would like to us to consider your contribution please contact the Museum by emailing us at: smoase@niagarafalls.ca 

Niagara Falls Museums launch exhibition to kick off National Indigenous History Month

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The Niagara Falls Museums teamed up with Landscape of Nations 360⁰ to create an exciting new virtual exhibition that explores the Museums’ collections of Indigenous artefacts as curated through the perspective of Indigenous curators and their allies.

Entitled, Empathic Traditions: Niagara's Indigenous Legacy, the exhibition features objects selected from the Indigenous collections of the Niagara Falls History Museum that reveal the presence of Indigenous peoples, their art and history in the region, extending back hundreds of generations up to the present day. Vivid imagery of the artifacts combined with interpretive information help us understand what life was like for those who first arrived.

The exhibition includes more than 60 objects curated by some of the most knowledgeable experts on Indigenous culture, history, and archaeology in Southern Ontario, brought to life through the spectacular photography of award-winning photographer Mark Zelinski. The addition of video segments featuring Indigenous Curator Rick Hill, Archaeology Curator Rob MacDonald, Community Curator Dave Labbe, and Indigenous Arts Advisor Jolene Rickard will be added later in the year when the pandemic quarantine is lifted, and filming can resume.

The Niagara Falls History Museum will host this exhibition on its website. Explore EmpathicTraditions.ca in the month of June, 2020.
 

4 Directions Indigenous Leaders Speakers Series
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Take a journey with Indigenous leaders through the four quadrants of the medicine wheel. Walk together in learning the Emotional, Physical, Intellectual and Spiritual wellbeing as we move towards healing as a community.
 
Our first interactive webinar we take a journey with Sean Vanderklis and Karl Dockstader, hosts of Niagara's Indigenous podcast One Dish One Mic radio talk show on AM 610 CKTB. You will have the opportunity to engage in great conversation and laughs with Sean and Karl as they bring their unique urban Indigenous perspective to the evening.
 
Follow our social media to register for each of the nights.
 
Zoom webinar click the link below to register for the first in the series
June 4, 2020 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM 
https://bit.ly/2X1XJcf

 

History@Home: Bringing the Museum to you.

Since you are unable to visit the museum right now, we have decided to bring the museum to you. Here are links to some new videos on our Youtube channel, designed to tell you more about some of the artifacts in our collection and the history of our famous City. Click on the links below to enjoy the videos:

Bridges over Niagara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFlvaoZ1A8&feature=youtu.be

Blondin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TCUggGf_0A&feature=youtu.be

The 1862 Tremaine Map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCicTJKF30&feature=youtu.be

Stamford Township Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qXwrJ6K7tk&feature=youtu.be

South American Bird Display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yojHYyk-FDY&feature=youtu.be

Annie Edson Taylor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMwg7yu4Dco&feature=youtu.be

John Mewburn and the Fenian Raids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWag8wynjto&feature=youtu.be

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