Events & Exhibitions

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"POSTES CANADA POST "
SEPTEMBER 2010 TO SUMMER 2011

Working with the Heritage Club of Canada for Retirees of Canada Post, this exhibit outlines the history of postal services in Canada from the 18th century to recent times.  Highlights associated with local postal history is a focus of the exhibit. 

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"THE COLDER SIDE OF THE SPORTING LIFE"
SPRING 2011 TO FALL 2011

This exhibit celebrates winter sporting activities in the North Okanagan by encompassing the history of organized and unorganized winter sports that have taken place in the region for the past century. Downhill and cross-country skiing, curling, ice-skating, snowmobiling, and hockey will all be showcased with artifacts, photographs, and text. The exhibit will be located at Vernon's Wesbild Centre, the new home of the Vernon Museum's Okanagan Sports Hall of Fame.

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"THE POTTER OF VERNON"
SUMMER 2011 TO WINTER 2012

This exhibit highlights the work of Vernon potter, Axel Ebring.  Ebring came to the area in 1937 and set up a studio in Southeast Vernon right next to a favourable clay deposit.  Ebring produced a wide variety of functional earthenware.  he worked in the traditional manner and never abandoned his foot powered potter's wheel.  Nor did he ever use a thermometer for his wood fired kiln saying, "The best thermometer is an old man with experience."  Axel Ebring died in Vernon in 1954.  The pottery on display has been selected from the Vernon Museum's vast Ebring collection which numbers well over 300 pieces.