Top Alberta Art Galleries

dmission to Museum - Are You Curious? Immerse yourself in Canadian Indigenous Culture in an historic log building on the banks of the Bow River in Banff where eagles soar. Inspiring respectful coexistence, the Museum provides a safe space for Indigenous peoples of Canada to share their history, culture, and to encourage visitors to practice reconciliation. Groups can also pre-book via phone call or email customized Indigenous experiences, guided tours indoors and outdoors, medicine walks, beading workshops, drumming lessons, sharing circles, corporate retreats and learning, weddings, reunions, speaker events.

David Garneau: Dark Chapters and Reading the Ruins comprises a pairing of exhibitions by Canadian Métis artist and scholar, David Garneau. Dark Chapters, curated by Arin Fay, uses metaphorical still life paintings to share the lived experience of contemporary Indigenous people contending with the legacy of colonialism and institutional containment. Reading the Ruins, curated by Dick Averns, continues the vein of still life paintings to contemplate current conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine, and the ongoing legacy of the Dark Times that followed the repression of Métis people. Reading the Ruins, includes new paintings featuring NWMP-era artefacts from the holdings of University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections and Archives. The re-contextualized paramilitary artefacts are also displayed.