Museums are always changing and bringing new concepts, programs, partners, and artifacts into their spaces. With these come new challenges from an old enemy – pests. This session will examine recent endeavours to utilize an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program within a Collections Management database, investigate ways of minimizing risks in ethnographic collections while emphasizing access to Indigenous communities and explore current and future IPM research. #nutsandbolts

4. Uninspected/Quarantine Log Book and Plastic Supplies

8. Glenbow as an Event Space

9. Floral Alternative?

10. Staff Participation

11. Moth Infestation
What do we do? What do we Tell People?

12. Storage Cupboards

13. Compact Storage

14. Wrapping Oversized Objects

16. Loading the
Truck

17. Infested Bison
Hide

18. Bagged Within the
Cupboards

19. Oversized Storage and
Rolled Textiles

21. Nakoda Moccasins
Siksika (Blackfoot) Story Robe

22. When First Nations people view artifacts at Glenbow
they see their own memories. Sometimes these are
memories of the individuals who saw the items being
used and knew their owners or makers. Sometimes they
are nostalgic memories of an imagined past when there
were no museums to house the relics of their culture.
Always, they are memories of the dominant culture
imposing its own values, judgments and definitions over
the self-identity of the First Peoples.
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural
Confidence

23. Kainai (Blackfoot) Headdresses

25. Katie Fisher
kfisher@glenbow.org