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Arts & Culture Festival, Speaker Series, Outreach Exhibits, and more! ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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We’ve switched to fall hours! The Museum is open from 10 am to 5 pm Tuesdays to Sundays. The Upper Level is open for a few more weeks! Explore on your own or call ahead to book a guided tour - included in admission!
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Our Youth Programming is starting up again for the fall! Drop by with your little one to enjoy the Discovery Zone with Little Paws Free Play (ages 0-6), explore the wonders of nature on Thursday afternoons with our Young Naturalists after-school program (ages 6-12), or check out our STEAM Saturdays - an all-ages program with crafts and experiments for the whole family! |
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September 6th-7thWe’re thrilled to be taking part in another Rossland Golden City Days weekend of festivities! Downtown, look for our float in the parade and check out our booth at the Fall Fair! Here at the museum, we'll join the celebrations with special open-by-donation days from 10 am - 5 pm Saturday and Sunday, featuring special crafts, games, scavenger hunts, and gold panning. We'll have guided outdoor tours at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm so you can learn all about our town's golden past... and the not-so-shiny bits, too! |
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September 13th-14th, 12 - 4 pmJoin us on the Museum lawn for live music and lots of fun for the whole family at our annual Arts & Culture Festival. In partnership with the Rossland IncrEdible Market, we'll be featuring Kootenay artisans, vendors, and food trucks! The festival is an opportunity for our region’s local visual and performing artists to showcase their talents to the public as we celebrate the spectacular culture in our area with live music, artist demos, artisan booths, and more. Entry is free, but donations are always appreciated! |
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6 pm on Thursday, September 18thWe are so excited to host mountaineering pioneers Don Vockeroth & Craig McCallum for a Speaker Series event. Come out to the Rossland Museum at 6 pm on Thursday, September 18th for the thrilling tale of their 1998 Muskwa Expedition. |
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6 pm on Wednesday, October 1stSPECIAL SCREENING! We're excited to announce a special presentation of the new documentary Safe Haven: The Rainbow-Jordan Wilderness with an introduction from biologist Amber Peters. |
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We’ll be open by donation from 10 am to 5 pm on September 30th, 2025 - all donations going to the Indian Residential School Survivors’ Society. We operate on unceded Sinixt tmxʷúlaʔxʷ (territory). Stop by to reflect on the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action and explore some of the exhibits we’ve added to our space over the past few years. |
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Genealogy ClubThe next meeting of the Genealogy Club will be 1-3 pm on Tuesday, September 30th. The Genealogy Club typically meets on the last Tuesday of the month and is open to everyone. Please bring your genealogical challenges, your smiles, and your documents and we will help each other to solve problems and create family trees. To RSVP, call 250-362-7722, email info@rosslandmuseum.ca, or sign up online. |
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Students & Recent Grads — We’re Hiring!
Looking to build experience in museums, archives, or community engagement? The Rossland Museum has five exciting student and internship positions available this fall, including Archives Assistant, Research Assistant, and full-time internships in Operations, Archival Research, and Community Engagement. Check out our website for full job posters and information about how to apply. |
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Our exhibits team has been busy the last couple of weeks, getting four new outreach exhibits out into downtown Rossland! |
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1955.69.1 - Hoffman House Room Key Hoffman House (2044 Washington Street) was built in 1896 by Harry McIntosh Hotel originally had a large bar room, dining room and kitchen, two club rooms, four bathrooms, 25 rooms, and four bowling lanes By 1934, the building was converted to a hardware store and encompassed the neighbouring Collins Hotel - hardware store of some kind (including Wise's Hardware) operated there until 1988 Home of House of Paws (pet store) and residential apartments today
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2356.0035 - Montreal Hotel Bar Room Photo The Montreal Hotel (2190 Columbia Avenue) was Rossland's smallest hotel Built 1896 and had a bar, dining room, kitchen, sitting room, nine rooms, and a single bathroom Operated for 17 years - closing in 1914 Best known in Rossland for being the home of the Okanagan Fruit Store, or O.K. Store
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We’ve done some further digging on the history of the Dewdney Trail! The Dewdney Trail was a 720-kilometre-long trail that spanned the majority of BC, reaching from Hope, on the Fraser River, to Wild Horse Creek, in the East Kootenays. Read the whole story on our website. |
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