The Junk Pile of History? A Final Look at the Canadian Energy Museum’s Object Garden

Jul. 28

This piece is the fourth in a series of blogs about the Canadian Energy Museum, a small museum situated in the town of Devon, Alberta that has closed due to the loss of funding.

This blog presents a photo essay by artist and professor Dr. Jean-René Leblanc, which captures the now inaccessible object garden situated on the grounds of the CEM. The object garden not only includes the national and provincial historic site of the Leduc no 1 well and the Leduc-Woodbend Oil Field, but also a collection of derricks and other oil field equipment that will remain outside for the time being, subject to the weathering of time. to read full article on NiCHE, click here!

Photo: Jean-René Leblanc. *Used with permission of the CEM.*

Energy Stories Lab

The Energy Stories Lab is collaborative and transdisciplinary, combining ethnography with new forms of art and visualization, including augmented reality (AR), 3D object making, collective mapping and GIS. We highly value collaborative community-based digital storytelling methods, such as PhotoVoice, VideoVoice and also novel approaches to oral and life history.

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