Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Name: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Telephone: 403-762-2291
Price range: n/a

111 Bear Street (PO Box 160), Banff, Alberta T1L 1A3

Address111 Bear Street (PO Box 160), Banff, Alberta T1L 1A3

Phone403-762-2291

Fax403-762-8919

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Daily 10 am - 5 pm, closed Dec 25 and Jan 1.

Location Type - Art Galleries

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Located on a spectacular site beside the Bow River in downtown Banff. Discover the rich natural and cultural heritage of the Canadian Rockies. The Museum offers guided tours of Banff's heritage log homes and cabins; historic walking tours of the Banff townsite; and exhibition tours of the galleries. Adults $10, Seniors $9, Students & locals (Lake Louise to Morley) $4, Members and Children under 12 Free. Daily 10 am - 5 pm, closed Dec 25 and Jan 1.

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Canadian Rockies

Through the Lens Returns to Bow Valley

Mar 14, 2024
Redesigning Paradise

Artists use alternative photographic processes to investigate nature.

Jan 30, 2023
Breathe

Beading masks helps process feelings about the coronavirus pandemic.

Sep 21, 2020
Laara Cassells

Artist collapses time with paired portraits of contemporary models and historical figures.

May 20, 2019
CEO Moves from Glenbow to the Whyte

Donna Livingstone, who has worked at the Glenbow for six years, will assume her new job on June 24.

Apr 23, 2019
CEO Brett Oland Leaves Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation

Brett Oland has resigned as CEO of the Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation after seven years for a new role as interim CEO with the Bow Valley Credit Union.

Jan 19, 2019
Whyte Lights

A show in Banff explores the fascinating lives of hometown boy Peter Whyte and his wealthy American wife, Catharine Robb Whyte. Both were remarkable painters.

Jul 28, 2018
Mountain Photography

Stunning images of Kluane National Park in Yukon by two photographers are on view in Banff.

Mar 9, 2018
Cowboys of the Americas

Childhood memories led Luis Fabini on a 10-year journey to photograph cowboys in eight countries on the two continents of the Americas.

Feb 13, 2017
Exposure Photography Festival 2016

Who is showing what in 2016!! The Exposure Photography Festival was established in 2004 to encourage the participation in, examination of, and appreciation for the medium of photography.

Jan 18, 2016
DAN HUDSON: "Theories of Entanglement," Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB, Oct. 24, 2014 to Jan. 25, 2015

Artists harbour degrees of obsessiveness, overt or submerged, in their personalities. Without it, good art would likely not be made. Dan Hudson’s "Theories of Entanglement" provides evidence for this.

Nov 16, 2014
Collection of Harvey Locke.

"Indigenous Ingenuity" at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies - June 15 to Oct. 19, 2014

Indigenous Ingenuity includes paintings, sculptures and installations that highlight the diversity of aboriginal art.

Apr 20, 2014
Sarah Fuller at the Whyte Museum

Sarah Fuller considers memory and experience in relationship to place in "My Banff."

Dec 21, 2013
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies welcomes Vincent Varga as Museum Director

The Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies welcome Vincent Varga to the position of Museum Director, effective immediately.

Nov 5, 2013
"Picturing the Canadian Pacific Railway" by Ciprian Muresan To Oct. 13

Romanian artist Ciprian Muresan’s installation – coloured garbage bins that travel on a circular railway track – ties together Picturing the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Aug 28, 2013
Admission by Donation Opens Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies to All

Effective immediately and through to September 2013, visitors to the Whyte Museum will be admitted by donation, in place of Museum admission fees as a trial period, with the intention of continuing the policy indefinitely.

Apr 24, 2013
Michale Lang retires as ED of Whyte Museum

Michale Lang, Executive Director of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies has announced her decision to retire from the Museum.

Oct 22, 2012
Whyte Museum Receives Surprise Donation

In June, while speaking at the opening of the exhibition "Yellowstone to Yukon: The Journey of Wildlife and Art," the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies’ executive director Michale Lang got a surprise.

Aug 31, 2012
Andrew Querner

ANDREW QUERNER, "The Bread With Honey," February 4 to April 1, 2012, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff

The conflict in the Balkans was recent enough that most people can recall images from it, though even while it was unfolding it seemed exceptionally distant and foreign. Andrew Querner returned to Kosovo in 2010.

Dec 31, 2011
BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM: For A New Show On Photographer Nicholas Morant, Banff's Whyte Museum is Committing Public Acts of Archiving

Venturing into the Rummel Room at the far end of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, visitors might think the gallery had forgotten to put a few things away.

Aug 31, 2011
MARKO MODIC "Alchemy," February 5 to April 4, 2011, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff

As part of Exposure 2011, southern Alberta’s annual photography festival, Slovenia-based Marko Modic has a Canadian premiere with "Alchemy" at the Whyte Museum in Banff.

Dec 31, 2010
JAN KABATOFF "Glacier: A Journey," September 12 to November 12, 2009, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff

“I don’t want my work to become a science project,” says Canmore artist Jan Kabatoff. “I want to retain my own response to the glacier.”

Aug 31, 2009
LES GRAFF - Homage

After quitting his day job to paint full time, this Alberta-based artist could finally go deep into the prairie landscape.

Apr 30, 2007
"EXPOSURE 2006," The Banff, Canmore, Calgary Celebration of Photography, January to March 2006

The art of photography takes the spotlight this season with Exposure 2006, a multi-city celebration of turning negatives into positively striking images.

Dec 31, 2005