Finish your day at the museum with a wild hobbyhorse obstacle course!

Play three riotous voyageur games!

Create a multilayered art piece depicting our local landscape!

Create a beautiful painting of a birch forest, and learn a bit about our tree friends along the way!

Learn about how the past touches our lives right now, through the history of our region’s forestry industry!

This program brings local history and nature to life, all within the museum!

Learn about local landscapes and wildlife while playing at our Water Table!

Learn how natural resource transportation created our communities!

In this program, we’ll welcome your pre-K group for a museum tour curated especially for them.

Experience winter traditions that found their way to our region from all over the world!

Take a trip through our museum, exploring local history, nature, and beyond! In this program, your students will experience a curriculum-linked activity in each room of the museum. Every activity is hands-on and engaging, and there’s time for exploration and play, too! Give your students a museum experience full of discovery, fun, and belonging. 

What was life like for children in our region 100 years ago?

Explore how we saw, see, experience, and use the sky above us. This 1-hour talk covers light, sextants, and telescopes. Students will handle sextants and learn the basics of their use to collect light from heavenly bodies and compare it with earthly vistas. The session includes a comparison of how voyageurs and astronauts use technology to understand their world using the sky.

Solve the mystery of who stole David Thompson’s sextant before time runs out! Engage in puzzles, a crime scene investigation, and explore historical references to Hinton in the 1920s.

Learn about traditional Indigenous storytelling practices and uses. Students will create their own creation legend using story dice and then will learn about an Indigenous creation story found within a constellation. After hearing the story, they will make a 3-D diorama of the Indigenous story to take home.

Step back in time and become a fur trader in Canada’s past!

Take an in-depth and hands-on look at the people behind the scenes at museums. Encapsulate a photograph, sculpt an artifact, test your memory, and design a museum for your classroom!