Accessible Peaks: Embracing Adaptive Sports in Whistler explores the history of adaptive sports in Whistler with an emphasis on para-alpine skiing and the ways in which accessibility has (and hasn’t) been embraced in events, design, and programs. Accessible Peaks opens Friday, January 31 and runs through April 30.[...]
The appearance of snowboarders on the slopes in the late 1980s caused a stir in the Whistler community. Though it was not all sunshine and rainbows at the start, the new “youthful” sport persisted and changed the resort landscape. The Whistler Museum’s latest temporary exhibit, Off the Lip: The Rise of Snowboarding in Whistler, digs into […][...]
One of the larger donations to the archives in 2020 was a collection of materials from the Whistler Pride and Ski Festival, charting its evolution from the 1990s to the 2010s. That donation forms the backbone of our next temporary exhibit, looking at the history of Pride in Whistler. We will have extended hours for […][...]
A couple of weeks ago (Wednesday, November 17), the Whistler Museum opened Parkhurst: Logging Community to Ghost Town, a temporary exhibition about the Parkhurst Mill site. Though the Parkhurst Mill (or Northern Mills, as it was later called) closed in 1956, the site continued to be inhabited and cared for by various people squatting on […][...]