Arts & Culture
Museum offering an Old Fashioned Christmas
photos by Lucie Roy This past weekend’s Lite Up the Nite Christmas Festival included an opportunity for people to go […]
museum
Arts & Culture
Week in photos so far
Above: The Museum has an interesting display of antique dolls and teddy bears. They are open Wednesday to Saturday from […]
Arts & Culture
Museum receives church organ for display
The Musée Morinville Museum recently received a new item with local historical significance – a church organ used in St. Jean Baptiste Church before the restoration of the original 1925 Casavant Freres tubular pneumatic organ. […]
Morinville News
Government launches pilot program for visitor services
Reliable and easy-to-access visitor and tourism information is the motivation behind a government pilot project announced Thursday morning.
The new Visitor Services Innovation Fund, launched by Culture and Tourism, will provide grants up to $7,000 to individual organizations providing visitor services and up to $16,000 to those partnering to develop new ways to connect with more tourists in the province. […]
Local News
Council receives a round of asks ahead of 2017 Budget
Councillor’s were hit with asks from the Musée Morinville Museum, Morinville Community Library, and the Morinville Festival Society as part of their annual budget process during their most recent Committee of the Whole meeting. Each of the organizations made presentations detailing their budgets and the amount they were asking for from the Town. […]
Arts & Culture
Museum receives lesson in good manners
More than 23 self-help books from the 1940s were among a collection of items donated to the Musée Morinville Museum by Angie Gibeault.
One of the books is A Book of Manners: Present-Day Customs and the Courtesies of Social Intercourse… […]
Local News
Local Legion members attend rally
By Lucie Roy
Onoway – Legionnaires from around the region gathered in Onoway over the weekend for a rally. The Morinville Legion had 13 Branch and one Ladies Auxiliary member in attendance. The annual Rally includes Legion and Ladies Auxiliary members from the Branches in Whitecourt… […]
Arts & Culture
Historical vignettes being researched for St. Jean Baptiste Park
Submitted
Morinville – Musee Morinville Museum Directors Yvon Leblanc, Murray Knight and Andre Noel were busy removing the vignettes from the St. Jean Baptiste Park Wednesday morning. Some of the vignettes will be redone and the museum directors are already tasked with their choice of theme to research and compilation of information before meeting with the chosen artist… […]