10 Facts About Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The Glenbow Museum was established as a private non-profit foundation in 1955 by lawyer, businessman and philanthropist Eric Lafferty Harvie with materials from his personal collection.

Glenbow Museum moved to its current facility in downtown Calgary in 1976, and is funded by the governments of Calgary, Alberta and Canada, private donors, as well as an endowment provided by Harvie.

Glenbow Museum's origin begins with Alberta lawyer and businessman Eric Lafferty Harvie.

Harvie founded the Glenbow Museum Foundation, named after Harvie's ranch and the Canadian Pacific Railway station 1.

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In 2021, the Glenbow Museum secured a total of $94 million from government sources including $40 million from each of the Government of Canada and Alberta, and $14 million from the city of Calgary to redesign and renovate the eight-story downtown space.

Glenbow Museum archives are one of Canada's largest non-governmental repositories and a major research centre for historians, writers, students, genealogists, and the media.

Glenbow Museum's library contains 100,000 books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, and pamphlets with relevance to Western Canada, from the time buffalo roamed the plains, to the coming of the railroad and settlement of the West, to political, economic and social events in Alberta today.

Glenbow Museum's collection includes artifacts from Western Canada, and various other cultures around the world.

Glenbow Museum's collection includes a number of artifacts from around the world.