Museums & galleries

Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum, Banff

The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum is a private, not-for-profit museum located just across the Bow River Bridge from downtown Banff. It is operated by the Buffalo Nations Cultural Society and lets visitors explore the culture, traditions, and values of the Indians of the Northern Plains and the Canadian Rockies. The museum exhibits offer an insight into the way the people of the Plains lived and adapted to their surroundings and each other before and after the arrival of Europeans in North America.

Housed within a timber stockade-like building, the museum houses a range of exhibitions, artifacts, and dioramas, with scenes depicting the daily lives of the aboriginal peoples of the Plains. In addition, on display is Norman Luxton's small but unique personal collection of First Nations artifacts that spans more than a hundred years.

The on-site Buffalo Nations Gift Shop features distinctive items such as beaded crafts, silver jewellery and high-quality native artwork by native artists from across Canada. In addition, there is a wide range of books, artcards, dreamcatchers, toys, posters, clothing and other First Nations products.

www.buffalonationsmuseum.ca

Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum
1 Birch Avenue
PO Box 850
Banff, AB T1L 1A8

Phone: (403) 762-2388
Fax: (403) 760-2803