Highlights - Glenbow Museum

Many well-established collaborations continued over the past twelve months. Mike continues to
co-chair the Olympic Plaza Cultural District with Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts CEO, Colin
Jackson. He is also now a member of the steering and advocacy committees of the National Arts
Summit that will meet for the first time in Montreal in March of 2005. Glenbow Museum has
been active on the environmental front in Calgary by helping to launch Imagine Calgary, an
innovative, citizen-led collaboration to craft a 100-year sustainability road map for the city.
Glenbow Reference Archivist and author Harry Sanders gave the road map launch conference a
superb slide-illustrated, one hour lecture on Calgary’s first 100 years. Provincially, members of the
Glenbow staff have been actively involved in Museums Alberta, and over the next year we will
be actively building collaborations with our sister institution, the Provincial Museum of Alberta in
Edmonton, directed by Bruce McGillivray. Nationally our most frequent co-conspirator in travelling
exhibits and idea swapping is the Canadian Museum of Civilization led by Victor Rabinovitch.
As we continue to chart our course as one of Canada’s most entrepreneurial “top 10” museums,
we must also thank the foundations, corporations and individuals who support our work. This
year we would like to acknowledge the City of Calgary's on-going support for operational costs.
As well, we thank this year's major presenting sponsors, BP Canada Energy Company for
Inusivut: Our Way of Life and AIM Trimark for The Mysterious Bog People. We must also
acknowledge the long-term support of ChevronTexaco who make Glenbow’s Open Minds
Museum School such a strong part of our institutional culture. In addition, the Bumper
Development Corporation Ltd. continues to make our Asian Gallery one of the top three in
North America.
Over the next year we will continue to fundraise for the Mavericks Gallery, an $8.5 million
construction project, work to build and sustainably manage our endowment currently valued at
$28 million 1, and strive to be the kind of place you want to visit for fun, for a date, with your
parents or grandparents, a friend or just by yourself. Museums are not dusty old warehouses of
curiosities any more; they rock with the enthusiasm of people who love beauty, ideas, and
challenging thoughts.
Randy Oliver
CHAIR
Michael P. Robinson
PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
1Glenbow’s endowment is responsible for approximately one quarter of our operating revenues at a draw of 8 to 8.5 percent. Our goal is to grow the endowment sufficient
to sustain this level of cash contribution at a draw of 5 to 5.5 percent.
2 Glenbow Museum ANNUAL REPORT 2003/04