VISITOR NOTICE: Early Closure at 2pm on December 24 and December 31, 2024. The museum is closed on December 25, 2024 and January 1, 2025. Happy Holidays!
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April 14th, 2015 Our lives are full of small victories that could make a big impact. Consider how to shape your own life in a way that uses less.
April 14th, 2015 What can we learn from the Canadian governments moratorium on Northern Cod in 1992?
April 7th, 2015 What happens when the world's demand for cocoa outpaces our ability to produce it?
March 19, 2015 In memory of this tragic event, the Museum is dedicating our revamped viewing area, named ‘The Outlook’, in the memory of those lost.
July 15, 2014 The bag was sealed tight and there were no rips in it. Gold and water remained in the bag. So where did the gemstones go?
January 02, 2014 In 1910, Schley hired JWD Moodie to turn around the ailing Tintic Mine. In one year, Moodie was able to revamp its operations, tak...
January 02, 2014 These brief introductions to five major figures in mining that are connected to Britannia is a great place to begin your own explo...
January 02, 2014 The story of Marcus Daly captures both the wild successes the frontier granted a few as well as the realities of life for prospect...
January 2, 2014 Grant B Schley was born in Chapenville New York in 1845. He began his career in finance at the age of 16 as a clerk. At the age of...
January 02, 2014 Born in Ohio around 1850, George H. Robinson moved west in 1878 to work as an engineer for the Santa Fe Railway. By 1880 he was em...
January 02, 2014 Fritz Heinze arrived in Butte Montana in 1889 from Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a surveyor for the Boston and Montana Co...
January 2, 2014 For British Columbia, it was the fur trade, followed by the fisheries, and coal on Vancouver Island that sparked settlement along t...