Celebrating 35 Years at YTM: Looking Back at 2024-25
This year marked a special milestone for the museum: our 35th anniversary. It was a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come, to celebrate the people and stories that…
‘Little North’ exhibit (featuring YTM!) debuts at Little Canada in Toronto
Whitehorse is being rendered as a miniature set by a Toronto-based artist for Little Canada part of a broader project to bring the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut to life in pint-sized…
WATCH: The Huge LeTourneau LCC-1 “Sno-Train” That Conquered the Arctic
Have you ever heard of the Isle of Raasay in the Hebrides in Scotland? We hadn’t either before this summer, when a wonderful guy from Raasay who “likes making videos…
Dad travels 6,000 km to help son fix model train at YTM
Check out this excellent story from CBC News (just in time for Father’s Day!) about YTM Executive Director Sean Ridder and his dad Jerry, a recently retired electrical engineer living…
History Hunter: The Yukon/Stikine Heritage Fair returns
The Yukon/Stikine Regional Heritage Fair made a live comeback last week after a five-year interruption because of Covid-19, during which it was cancelled or held as a virtual event. Dozens…
Whitehorse gets footloose with local barn dance in transportation museum!
Laughter, dancing, and fiddle music can be heard from outside the Yukon Transportation Museum. That’s thanks to a barn dance put together by some local community members. Watch the event…
Student-directed music program helps Indigenous youth follow their passions
We’ve partnered with Big Cedar Music this offseason to offer space for an innovative music lesson series for First Nations youth. Check out the story from CBC North here.
It was a sold-out show!
We were proud to partner with Come What Mae Productions and Cherie Coquette to produce the first-ever Queerlesque Convoy Cabaret Showcase and Peepshow Extravaganza in the museum’s main hall. YTM…
George Dawson, a pillar of the Yukon community
One of the highlights of our first Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame awards ceremony since the start of the pandemic was the induction of the late George Dawson, a pillar of…
Painstaking helicopter restoration completed
Have you seen the Hiller 360 helicopter in our hangar? There aren’t too many folks in the world who could have seen its restoration through, but luckily we have one…