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4525-47a Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z6
#MuseumMomentsMW Today’s theme for Museum Week is Museum Moments so we’re sharing some memories of past events and visits to the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery (MAG). Share with us some of your favourite moments of the...
This week's Work of the Week is: Pierre Oberg, Transparent Landscape #2, Artful Appeasements, mixed media, Canada Council for the Arts, 1998.27.2 Pierre is a proud prairie boy and has always referenced his love for the land in his...
Keeping the Creativity at Home with miniMAG - May 13, 2020 Time for miniMAG at home! Baby Koi in a Bag! You'll be creating your own fish in a bag today in honour of the MAG’s koi fish. You get to paint a fish, put it in a bag...
#CultureInQuarantineMW Today’s theme for Museum Week 2020 is Culture in Quarantine. We invite you to re-create some paintings or prints from the MAG’s collections using what you can find in your household! This is inspired by the...
This is Part 1 of a two-part baking series. See how Kim's Lemon Sponge Cake from Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis’s Cook Book turned out here! More time spent at home means more opportunity to bake! Pictured is a very early...
#MuseumWeek #HeroesMW Photo: Dr. Richard Parsons taken in 1934. Red Deer & District Archives, P8353 Each year the MAG participates in @MuseumWeek which aims to deliver culture and arts to audiences worldwide digitally...
Mary Westera (Toerse) Den Ham, Netherlands 1926-2017 Image: Mary and Ties Westera ready to depart on the boat, 1948. Marrigje (Mary) Toerse was born in October 1926. She grew up on a small farm where her family grew vegetables...
Ann Korver (Barthel) Haarlem, Netherlands Image: Nicolaas and Ann Korver on their wedding day, November 8, 1963 in Lethbridge, Alberta. Antje (Ann) Barthel was born in May 1944. Twice, her family tried to immigrate to Canada and were...
Keeping the Creativity at Home with MAGnificent Saturdays - May 9, 2020 Today's MAGnificent Saturdays art activity for you to do at home: Jackson Pollock Inspired Splatter Art Using ink and straws, we will be creating colourful...
Sam Denhaan The Hague, Netherlands Image: Sam when he arrived in Alberta in 1954. Simon (Sam) Denhaan was 6 when Germany invaded and remembers their astonishing advance. His father was in the Dutch army, and became a Prisoner of War...
Rob Porkka Red Deer, Alberta Image: Rob Porkka at the Knokke-Heist Liberation March Rob Porkka is a historian and educator. He taught at the AFCENT International School (run by NATO) in the Netherlands on loan from the Red Deer...
Addy Jentink (Heystek) Vlissingen, Netherlands Addy (Zoetje Adriana) Heystek was born in February 1931. Her family lived close to the sea on Walcheren Island. The youngest of three children, she has fond memories from before the war including...
Hours of OperationGALLERY HOURS (Summer 2020):
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 4:30 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed
Holidays: CLOSED
Business Hours 9 am - 4:30 pm Mon-Fri
Phone 403-309-8405
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