The Fernie Museum and Downtown Visitor Centre
At the centre of Historic Downtown, the Fernie Museum and Visitor Centre makes its home in the 1908 Home Bank building. Learn all about Fernie’ s rich and dramatic history and heritage, things to do, attractions, upcoming events, festivals and more.
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Exciting Changes to the Fernie Museum!
The Fernie Museum has enjoyed over 55,000 visitors since it opened to the public in 2013. The main floor exhibit, This Is Our Fernie, explores the legend of a curse, fires that razed the town to the ground and mining disasters that cut like a knife through the community. New interactive terminals alongside refreshed displays will provide additional layers of content and showcase even more of the museum’ s collections in an exciting update to the current permanent collection. This new visitor experience will open December 1.
Winter Exhibit
Also opening on December 1 in the temporary exhibit gallery is Fernie Treasurers and Curiosities, the final exhibit of the museum’ s Canada 150 cultural series. The Fernie Museum has almost 10,000 artifacts in its Cultural History Collection that relate to the human history of the Elk
Valley reflecting stories of commerce, immigration, education, community services, religion, transportation, military service, diversity and the personal lives of individuals who chose to live here. Members of the Fernie community will select 150 treasures and curiosities from the vaults; each individual will reflect on the importance of the object to Fernie’ s history and share their how the stories of the objects are relevant to their lives today.
Museum Shop
An exciting new permanent addition this year is the Museum gift shop, featuring a carefully curated selection of museum-quality reproductions of items found in their exhibits and collections, handcrafted jewelry and art by local artists, unique gifts such as the museum’ s own Fernie blend tea, and a wide selection of publications related to Fernie history not found elsewhere in Fernie. The shop opens just in time for the holiday season on December 1.
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