As a dual mandate facility, the Estevan Art Gallery & Museum (EAGM) is located on Treaty 2 and Treaty 4 territory, the traditional territory of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Ojibwe, Oji-Cree, Assiniboine, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, Saulteux and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. The EAGM is an art gallery, open all year, that features contemporary art and travelling heritage-based exhibitions. On the same grounds, there is a seasonal museum dedicated to the history of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP), their Trek West and local Indigenous history.
The EAGM also has a fine arts collection consisting of prints and paintings donated by Sask Arts. These prints are from well-known Saskatchewan/Canadian printmakers and painters such as: David Thauberger, Ernest Lindner, Michael Lonechild, Doris Wall-Larsen, and Ronald Bloore. Enhancing this collection is an extensive volume of Andrew King’s hand carved wood printing blocks and posters. In the 1930s, Andrew King’s business, Enterprise Show Print in Rouleau, Saskatchewan, was the only full-time show poster printing plant in Canada. He later moved to Estevan and became the editor of the Estevan Mercury, the local newspaper and continued his poster printing business, aptly named King Show Print. His printing methodologies and posters are seminal to Canadian design history and are featured in collections internationally and across Canada.
The EAGM’s artefacts collection consists of objects that are related to the North West Mounted Police and the 1874 March West from Roche Percee to Estevan along with history pertaining to the local Indigenous communities. The NWMP collection and subsequent displays are housed in our seasonal museum in the Wood End detachment, the oldest historic detachment post in Saskatchewan.
As part of the EAGM’s mandate as a gallery/museum, the collections are actively used for the advancement of life-long learning in arts, culture and heritage. Exhibiting artworks and artefacts demonstrates the EAGM’s commitment to fostering knowledge about our local and regional history, art education, art history and the art practices of Saskatchewan artists.
Location Notes
118 4th Street, Estevan, SK
Operating Season
January – December
Hours
Art Gallery: January – December
Seasonal Museum: June – August
Monday to Friday: 10AM – 6PM, closed for lunch from noon to 1PM.
