Halloween comes alive at the Galt
SPOOKTACULAR GIVES INSIGHT INTO TRADITIONS
The Halloween spirit was alive at the Galt Museum’s Halloween Spooktacular on Saturday.
Erynn Konowalchuk, community programs coordinator at the Galt Museum says this is a great day for all to attend, not only for the fun activities, but to learn something about Halloween traditions in the process.
“For this event what we’re hoping to do is give a little bit of history to Halloween and day of the dead traditions as well as celebrate the holiday. We want to make history interactive and fun so kids and all ages can enjoy it.”
As part of their fall edition the facility celebrated the spooky holiday for the second time since 2016, featuring creepy activities, ghost tours, free admission to the museum and snacks for all to devour.
“We will be having hospital tours of the old Galt hospital building, where we’re going to supply people with historical and ghost stories of the building as we walk around. We will also be doing pumpkin decorating and talking about history of pumpkins and jack o’ lanterns, as well as decorating sugar cookies for day of the dead and learning the history with that as well.”
Konowalchuk added that these activities are exciting as they offer insight into traditions we’ve been taking part in our whole lives, but may never have known the true history before now.
The day also had yard games such as bean bag toss, Halloween-themed crafts, a treasure hunt with prizes and all participants are encouraged to show up in their spookiest attire to go along with the theme of the event.
“We try to do a community day with each calendar that comes out each season of the year. Our calendars also usually go along with special exhibits that we have, so we will have a new calendar coming out in January with the new exhibit. But right now, we have the ‘Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello’ so people can check out that portion of it as well,” Konowalchuk said.
“If you’re new to Lethbridge or maybe you just didn’t know local history we add that with our tours along with the event, during our community days we really just want people to enjoy the facility and all the history that we provide here.”