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The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum is dedicated to the appreciation, interpretation, demonstration and display of the cultures, traditions, and values of the First Nations of North America and their trading partners. The museum seeks to show how the people of this land lived and adapted to their surroundings and each other prior to contact with European culture, and how they continued to adapt after European influences.

The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum tells the story of the First Nations people of the Plains through interpretive exhibitions, artifacts, and dioramas.

Artifacts and “living picture” displays provide knowledge and understanding of aboriginal life, celebrating a culture rich in spiritual and ceremonial life, everyday life, stories, and legends. Throughout the year the museum collaborates with First Nations performers, musicians, craft workers and artisans, presenting live performances and demonstrations. Visitors are provided the opportunity for cultural and artistic exchange and a means to learn and establish understanding between diverse cultural societies. As the Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum Board of Directors consists of members of Alberta’s diverse Native Nations, they, in-turn help to promote cross-cultural links of understanding and cooperation between all people.

The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum has the responsibility to our cultural communities, to provide knowledge and understanding of First Nations culture by providing meaningful, thoughtful exhibits and continue building upon existing partnerships while forging new collaborations.