PRESS RELEASE: Sliding Rossland's History into the Digital Age
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PRESS RELEASE: Sliding Rossland's History into the Digital Age

The Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre has been awarded a digitization grant from Library & Archives Canada to preserve and make accessible its multimedia collection! A major grant of $21,417 from Library & Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program will help the RMDC upgrade its scanning technology and digitize and rehouse approximately 1,500 of the photographic slides in its collection.

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Film Screening: Unarchived
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Film Screening: Unarchived

Join us at 3 pm on Tuesday, June 27th for a free community screening of the National Film Board’s new film Unarchived, a feature-length documentary about the people and places often left out of traditional archives and museums, and the communities who are challenging this erasure.

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January Strawberry Tea
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January Strawberry Tea

Join us for the January historical Strawberry Tea at the Rossland Public Library on Thursday January 23rd from 12pm-2:30pm
This is a fun monthly event geared towards seniors (but all are welcome) with tea, coffee by Alpine Grind and treats with lots of time to chat and check out some interesting photos and objects from the collection.

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Public Workshop: Describing, Housing, and Repairing Archival Material
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Public Workshop: Describing, Housing, and Repairing Archival Material

The Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre is pleased to host a workshop focusing on key preservation and long-term storage needs of archival materials/collections. We are excited to provide professional learning opportunities to museums, archives, and heritage enthusiasts in the surrounding communities.

Join us for an exciting and educational 2-day workshop with archives expert Linda Wills. We will be exploring prevention methods to protect archival materials, how to repair damage and properly store objects to stop further deterioration. In addition, we will be demonstrating making in-house storage boxes and padded hangers.

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