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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Canadian Military Medicine
October 20, 2023 – March 3, 2024
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Canadian Military Medicine explores Canadian military medicine from the 19th century through to Afghanistan. The exhibition features personal artifacts and oral histories from…
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Taras Polataiko: DEFIANCE
May 26, 2023 – September 24, 2023
DEFIANCE features Ukrainian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko, whose critique of cultural representation is in reaction to political instability attributed to the historic and current Russian aggression…
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Shell Shocked: The Long Road to Recovery
May 30, 2023 – August 13, 2023
At the beginning of the First World War, mental illnesses and nervous conditions were believed to result from an individual’s “weak” mind or character, rather than a legitimate reaction to an overwhel…
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To Oldman River: New Additions to UCalgary’s Military Collection
November 8, 2022 – April 30, 2023
To Oldman River showcases significant new material in UCalgary’s Libraries and Cultural Resources’ holdings at The Military Museums (TMM). The exhibition includes firearms, uniforms, medals, relics an…
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A Uniform Coat of Many Colours: Military Immigrants in Alberta
June 11, 2022 – September 11, 2022
A Uniform Coat of Many Colours: Military Immigrants in Alberta explores and presents diverse stories of immigrants in Alberta, who have undertaken military service in their countries of origin. Organi…
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Currencies of Conflict: University of Calgary Collections at The Military Museums
March 9, 2022 – May 23, 2022
Currencies are much more than monetary denominations. As means of establishing value that can circulate, exert influence, and be exchanged, currencies are influential concepts that also depict and pre…
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Mission: Afghanistan
July 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
Mission: Afghanistan is a major bilingual traveling exhibit developed in partnership between The Military Museums in Calgary, and the Department of National Defence Directorate of History and Heritage…
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Tensile Strength: Weavers and War
July 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
Tensile Strength: Weavers and War showcases intriguing forms of carpet-making known as Afghan War Rugs. Mounted to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, and curated by Michele Hardy, PhD, a…
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They Never Talked About It: Untold Stories WW II
June 15, 2020 – March 31, 2021
2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, affording opportunities for reflection on the world’s largest conflagration, and the manner in which art and heritage can recalibra…
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Steven Nunoda: Ghostown
February 7, 2020 – April 13, 2020
This solo exhibition is based on Nunoda’s research into Japanese-Canadian internment during World War II, addressing social, familial and personal fallout. Comprising a large-scale sculptural installa…
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Daughters of Uranium, an exhibition by Mary Kavanagh
September 27, 2019 – January 26, 2020
On July 16, 1945, when the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb, the atmospheric radiation released by this event marked the beginning of the what is now called the Nuclear Anthropoce…
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Quilting for a Cause: Red Cross Quilts of the Great War
June 7, 2019 – September 2, 2019
Founders’ Gallery presents two sister exhibitions of Canadian war-related craft. Both curated by Heather Smith, this will be the first time they have been shown together. Smith writes, “Today, the obj…
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