Tickets: $85 General Admission | $75 ACC Members

The Museum of Fear and Wonder is a collaborative project by Brendan Griebel and Jude Griebel. It uses the dying tradition of the rural museum to highlight the psychological and narrative qualities of objects.

The Tour:

In the private tour lead by Jude, you will learn about the objects, research and development of this museums. Small museums offer an intimate lens into the ways that people understand their world through physical objects. They are sanctioned places for individuals and communities to give material shape to their beliefs, morals and stories. They are monuments to a deep social, cultural and historical psychology.

The Workshop:

The Museum of Fear and Wonder contains a powerful collection of objects that explore the sublime and uncanniness of objects. It is a collection that finds its roots in the extraordinary nature of the everyday, like the doll that gets placed on a chair at the dinner table or the ventriloquist dummy that becomes distinct from the ventriloquist. In the workshop, participants will experience and examine these emotions firsthand through the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Cross cultural religious ideas of fear and wonder as a means of transformation will be discussed. Finally, the group will look at our shared human experience and explore through conversation the impact of fear and wonder as a means of growth and metamorphosis. The workshop will intensify the understanding the collection and the experience of it.

Please bring you own lunch and lawn chair as participants will connect over a picnic lunch together.

This is a self-driving tour. The Museum is located 1.5 hours from Calgary and 2.45 hours from Edmonton.

Age Limit 16+

About your instructor:

Dr. Reinhild Boehm is a Social Anthropologist, who retired as Associate Professor from the University of Alberta in 1999 and as Dean of Students from universities in the Middle East in 2017. Her extensive fieldwork in oral history in East Africa, Canadian Indigenous Communities and women is largely built around story telling. Her book: “Sacred Stories: Images of Women in Sacred Traditions” draws on universal tales of gender roles and how stories can be a foundation for adaptability and resiliency.

Please note, The Museum of Fear and Wonder is a private museum that can only be accessed by booked tour, see their website for details.