The Glenbow Museum is the largest museum in the whole western Canada. Situated in Calgary, the museum is spread in over 93,000 square feet and has more than 20 galleries as exhibition space. The galleries display at the Glenbow Museum has a collection of more than million objects. The visit to the museum is among the popular activities in Calgary.
The Glenbow Museum started its operation in 1966, as Glenbow-Alberta Institute, when Eric Harvie donated all his historical collection to the Alberta people. The Glenbow Museum is maintained by the institute and is open to the public and has a good collection of art, a library and archives.
The Glenbow Museum has four primary collections. These are Cultural History, Ethnology, Military History and Mineralogy.
The Cultural History section has a collection of over 100,000 objects from around the world and provides information on the life in Western Canada from the late 1800s up to the present day. The items show how people made a living, governed, how did they dressed and ate and how they relaxed.
The Ethnology collection has around 48,000 items made or else used by the indigenous people of North America, mainly the northern Plains and also th Northwest Coast, Arctic and the sub-arctic regions.
The Military History collection includes 26,000 items from many countries for over nearly five centuries, mainly European, Asian, and North American firearms and also the edged weapons.
The mineralogy collection is extensive and comprises minerals and precious and semi-precious stones from across the world, mainly Western Canada.
The Glenbow Museum also has a good collection from Asia and it includes relics, paintings, sculptures in stones, masks, wood and metal. The Buddhist culture and the Hindu culture of Asia, right from the 1st century to the 18th century can be known in this museum.
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