Allan Community Heritage Society and Museum

Allan Community Heritage Society and Museum Seasonal Museum open early June- mid September. Displays change every year thanks to 230+ families who lend items each year including over 3000 local photos!

We are a lending museum - our displays change every season, based on our themes! We have the capability of conducting research for family trees, Allan history, etc. We would like to acknowledge SaskCulture & Sask Lotteries for their financial assistance in our Museum activities.

Stop and smell the flowers! 💐😊
08/22/2026

Stop and smell the flowers! 💐😊

Thank you everybody for showing up for Awareness day on the 12th! Whether you were paid staff, a volunteer, or here to h...
08/20/2026

Thank you everybody for showing up for Awareness day on the 12th! Whether you were paid staff, a volunteer, or here to have fun and enjoy the day, you made it spectacular. It was so wonderful, made possible by the over 40 volunteers (just 4 paid staff!) These numbers are significant - demonstrating how this community comes together to provide for one another. It really is special, and not something you see as frequently nowadays, so thank you. Thank you to the adults and children who enjoyed the crafts, who tried the woodworking tools, and who participated in the games. Thank you to those who helped organize the activities, and thank you to those of you who were there to run them. Thank you to everyone who came by for the fundraiser barbeque, what a great turnout! Thank you to those who prepared, cooked, and served the food. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You make me proud to be apart of this community!

Awareness day has officially started and everyone is having a blast! Express your creativity, have fun, enjoy great comp...
08/12/2026

Awareness day has officially started and everyone is having a blast! Express your creativity, have fun, enjoy great company and conversation today at the Allan Museum. We hope to see you here! 😊

Photos from week 4 of Children's Hour! This week was Ready, Aye, Ready: Navy themed. First, the children were shown seve...
08/08/2026

Photos from week 4 of Children's Hour! This week was Ready, Aye, Ready: Navy themed. First, the children were shown several of the artifacts on display in our military exhibit and learned the history behind the object. We discussed military mascots, soldier's paybooks, victory bonds, the purpose of a bugle, as well as morse code! In their passports this week, the children had an opportunity to try out what they learned and spell their name in morse code! Later, they created their very own paper boats which we had so much fun with!

Photos from weeks 2 & 3 of Children’s Hour! 🧩🚀Week 2 was One Piece Missing - Puzzles! The children learned about the ori...
07/29/2026

Photos from weeks 2 & 3 of Children’s Hour! 🧩🚀

Week 2 was One Piece Missing - Puzzles! The children learned about the origin of puzzles, starting with Oedipus's riddle… can you solve it? It went something like this: what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening? They then read a story, crafted a puzzle of their own, and played puzzle games (a scavenger hunt!!)

Week 3 was A Long Time Ago… In a Galaxy Far Away… - Space! The children began with a brief history of space expeditions and adventures, followed by stories about space. They then moved on to their craft - space helmets! We then played “musical planets”, or had a fun time pretending to be astronauts with our new hand-crafted space gear!

These weeks were too fun! 😁

Mark your calendars! Museum Awareness Day is scheduled for August 12th! The activities will begin at 10 am. Butter churn...
07/24/2026

Mark your calendars! Museum Awareness Day is scheduled for August 12th! The activities will begin at 10 am. Butter churning, potato stamping, cupcake liner flowers, quilling, and paper whirly gigs will end at 5:00 pm. The other activities will remain open until 6:00 pm. The Museum will be open from 10 am - 8 pm, have a look around!
It will be a fantastic day of crafts, games, learning and fun! Hope to see you there!

Who had the best mullet? 🤔Maybe the Roman emperor Tiberius? According to historian Suetonius, who writes during the Impe...
07/23/2026

Who had the best mullet? 🤔
Maybe the Roman emperor Tiberius? According to historian Suetonius, who writes during the Imperial era of the Roman Empire, the hairstyle that Tiberius had was “rather long at the back, so much so as even to cover the nape of his neck,” Or Tiberius’s great-nephew Caligula? A bust made to represent him depicts his hair as short locks across the forehead and longer hair behind. Byzantine scholar Procopius wrote that men from the Blue faction (chariot racing faction) wore their hair long at the back and cut it short over the forehead. This hairstyle would be useful to them, keeping their hair from their eyes while protecting the nape of the neck and keeping it warm. Maybe their mullet was best? Or the various Indigenous populations around the world rocking the mullet hairstyle? In Mourt’s Relation, author Edward Winslow described the Plymouth Pilgrims’ first encounter with the Abenaki sagamore, Samoset, in 1621: “He was a tall straight man, the hair of his head black, long behind, only short before, none on his face at all;...” Tribes in Borneo also have mullet hairstyles, such as Penan, Dayak Kayan, Kenyah and Iban.
Fast forward some many years and we reach the 1980s, mullets are everywhere! Popularized by musicians and entertainers, the hairstyle embodied the fun and excitement of the decade. Everybody from business men, construction workers, farmers, to models on the cover of Vogue Magazine had a mullet! And I have noticed a resurgence in the hairstyles’ popularity today (for better or for worse…your opinion 😂)!

Some photos from the first week of Children's Hour! This week, from July 8-9 was 1980s Clothing and Tie Dye! The kids co...
07/19/2026

Some photos from the first week of Children's Hour! This week, from July 8-9 was 1980s Clothing and Tie Dye! The kids coloured and designed paper clothing to put on small racks, tie dyed T-shirts using Jello, and played clothing themed games! They also learned a lot from Alex about the clothing trends of the 1980s. It was such a fun week! 🌈😁

I pass by this glass cabinet in the kitchen every workday, and every time I do I have to stop and admire these two artif...
07/12/2026

I pass by this glass cabinet in the kitchen every workday, and every time I do I have to stop and admire these two artifacts, Otagiri “Grand Iris” series ornaments. I just adore them! They are a beautiful example of what it looks like when two decades of trends combine. They were manufactured during the 1970s and 1980s, the 1970s being an era of that loved minimalist design: using the simplest and fewest elements to create maximum effect. Minimalism primarily developed out of the late 19th and early 20th modernism movement, which can be defined by its rejection of tradition, and exploration of alternative forms of expression. The 1980s saw a departure from the stark minimalism of the 70s, embracing radical creativity as a result of economic growth within the art market and the booming popularity of mass media, opening up innovations in visual culture. This is something I love about working at the Museum, being able to read historic context in the items I interact with just through their design alone!

Before vs. After!Come check out the 1980s building!
07/05/2026

Before vs. After!
Come check out the 1980s building!

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326 Main Street
Allan, SK
S0K0C0

Opening Hours

Tuesday 1pm - 5pm
Wednesday 1pm - 8pm
Thursday 1pm - 5pm
Friday 1pm - 5pm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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13062573511

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