INDIVIDUALS SELF-IDENTIFYING AS INDIGENOUS – VISITORS PASS FREE

Uprooted
Curated by  Erin Stodola

Road camp workers at Yard Creek. Image courtesy of Sicamous & District Museum &
Historical Society

During the Second World War nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted from their homes and livelihoods. They were sent to places they’d never been before not knowing when or if they would return. Some of these Canadians ended up near Salmon Arm. They made the best of their situation; sought employment, attended school, joined and formed sports teams, grew food, built homes, and gave birth. Some left as quickly as they came and others stayed.

Uprooted  runs until  June 30, 2025

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Meet the Register: Re-painted and Re-acquainted
Curated by Morgan Ryder and Deborah Chapman

This exhibit celebrates Haney House’s City of Salmon Arm 2025 Heritage Conservation Award--an honour that recognizes the Salmon Arm Museum in the institutional category for excellence in preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, or adaptive reuse of built heritage.

Haney House is one of fifty culturally significant historic places recognized on the City of Salmon Arm’s Heritage Register. Some have been renovated, added to, or lovingly restored, while others have not aged as gracefully. In the spring of 2025, local photographers from the Shuswap Photo Arts Club set out to capture the character of what has endured.

Meet the Register runs July 2 to September 26.

Retain These Walls: Where Art Meets History
Curated by Morgan Ryder and Deborah Chapman

A second exhibit of watercolour “Painted Ladies” is on display. Decades after selected heritage homes were constructed, artists interpreted Salmon Arm’s built heritage. The works of Marg Dondaneau, Lil Whitehead, and others are on display for the first time.

Retain these walls runs July 2 to September 26.