Friends of the Sunnybrook Farm Museum

Corporate body

Friends of the Sunnybrook Farm Museum

• Sunnybrook Farm Museum

1997-Ongoing

The Friends of Sunnybrook Farm Museum operates and administers the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer, Alberta. The Society manages the collections and buildings at the Sunnybrook Farm site. On behalf of the Society, the Sunnybrook Farm Museum acquires, manages, preserves and makes accessible artifacts that represent rural life in Central Alberta, circa 1880-1950.

The collection is displayed and stored in historic and specially constructed buildings on the original Bower farm site within the City of Red Deer. This site was initially operating under the name Bower Homestead Museum prior to renaming as Sunnybrook Farm Museum in 1989. Agricultural and rural history is presented to the public through displays, guided tours, special events, day programs, and an educational component with a curriculum-recognized school program, primarily during the summer months.

There are close connections between Sunnybrook Farm, the Red Deer & District Museum Society, and the Museums Management Board. The proposal to develop a "Homestead Museum" on the Norman Bower property was initiated by the Museums Management Board. After it was started, the president of the Red Deer & District Museum Society was an automatic member of the Society Board of Directors. As well, prior to June 2012 the Red Deer & District Museum Society was the legal owner of the land, buildings, and all artefacts collected until 1996 at Sunnybrook Farm.

The mission of the Friends of Sunnybrook Farm is to promote learning about rural life in Central Alberta, 1880 – 1950s, through preservation, interpretation and a living farm community.

Draft

Partial

2018-09

• English

Contents of the fonds
Sunnybrook Farm website