The Didsbury Museum is getting a fresh coat of paint throughout the facility over the next few months.
Museum manager Dean Mousseau said they are going from room to room on the main floor painting the walls and ceilings.
"No one can remember the last time it was painted," said Mousseau. "We should be done by the end of April. We received a grant through Alberta Historic Resources Conservation grant to work on it. So we took that opportunity to redo it."
The museum is located at 2118 - 21 Ave. and is open regular hours throughout all the painting project, she said.
On Feb. 27, the museum will be hosting its monthly coffee and conversations get-together, which will be on downsizing for boomers.
The museum's website has the following information posted about the museum building:
"This beautiful two-story brick and sandstone building was built in 1907 and the school held its first classes in 1908. In its first hundred years, the school building was a place where children gathered to learn and socialize, a temporary hospital during the influenza of 1918, a training area for men and women during World War 2 and now a museum. The red brick school became home to the Didsbury Museum in 1989. It was designated a Provincial Historic Resource in early 2011."
The Didsbury and District Historical Society acquired the title to the public school building in 2006.
Displays at the museum include artifacts from the homestead days, clothing, household items, farming equipment, a school room, a medical room, the Didsbury Pioneer newspaper printing press, a 1907 cast iron safe, military uniforms, badges, supplies, and artifacts from service clubs such as the Legion, Lions, Elks, Kinsmen, Masons, Scouts and the Women’s Institutes.
