Red Deer Museum Blog - 2010
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Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
Magnificent Saturdays!
This past Saturday our wonderful artist Sarah Brodie helped families create beautiful snowflakes with wax paper and melted crayons! Here's a peak at some of the fun!
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‘Canadian Pickers’ hosts visit Red Deer
Sheldon Smithens and Scott Cozens, the hosts of the upcoming, new History Television show, Canadian Pickers, will be at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery this Sunday, December 5, starting at 1:30pm to shed light on what’s hot in collecting and explore the antique toys on display in the museum’s MAGnificent Toys exhibition.
Sheldon Smithens is an antiques dealer, auctioneer and appraiser by trade, and his partner, Scott Cozens, is an ex-pro hockey player, part-time lawyer and life-long picker. Both have appeared on the Antiques Road Show.
Smithens was at the MAG in 2009 and provided a detailed assessment of the MAG’s decorative arts collection.
The MAGnificent Toys exhibit displays toys spanning a 100 time period from a cup and ball toy from the 1890’s to Cabbage Patch Dolls and Barbies from the 1980’s - all donated to the MAG by Red Deer and district residents.
Canadian Pickers, is a new Canadian series that follows ‘pickers’ Sheldon Smithens and Scott Cozens as they search Canadian back roads, basements, sheds and barns for unlikely gems and forgotten national treasures. Based on the format of the massively popular series, American Pickers, Canadian Pickers is slated to premiere in Spring 2011 on History Television.
In addition to talking about the MAG’s toys, Smithens and Cozens will discuss the treasures of the first 10 members of the public who bring in their own collectables and register at the MAG, Sunday before 1:30 PM. For more information contact Rod Trentham, 403-309-8405.
Sunday, December 5; 1:30 pm
Exploring Antique Toys and What’s Hot in Collecting
with Scott Cozens and Sheldon SmithensFree with admission.
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And the winner is...!!
Here is Magdalena, the winner of the Halloween Draw with a guess of 426 for the number of candies in this jar.
Here she is with her prize.
She was very close....there were 425 candies in the jar.
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Toy experts speak
When asked the questions,
What is your favourite toy?
What is the best thing about being a toy expert?
visitors to the TOP SECRET: mission toy exhibit answered this way:
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Curious Case Solved by 300 'toy detectives'
Halloween @ the MAG was a great success!
Over 300 toy detectives disguised as pirates, gangsters, stormtroppers and butterflies collected clues and solved "The Curious Case of the Missing Toy".
Can you solve the case too?
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