The Jasper Yellowhead Museum is featuring David Thompson for a few more days before they switch things up for the fall. 

David Thompson artifacts will be in the museum’s main gallery until Sept. 26. After that, a Tonquin Valley Quilt exhibit will be displayed for the month of October. 

Following the Tonquin Valley Quilt, the annual Festival of Trees will be on display in the main gallery. The festival is an early celebration of Christmas. The museum asks local community groups, businesses and families to sponsor a table-top sized tree to decorate. The trees are then auctioned off starting in November until the last week before Christmas. The winner will get to keep the tree, and any goodies that were used to decorate it. 

Karen Byers, manager of the Jasper Yellowhead Museum, said a number of groups have decorated trees in many different styles. 

“You name it, its been done,” she said. 

The exhibit is free to the public, and proceeds from the auction go to the museum and the Community Dinner Program. 

In the Alcove Gallery for the month of October and November, the museum will have a “Jasper Daze” exhibit featuring photographs and memorabilia of Jasper in the ‘30s and ‘40s. 

“That’s always a favourite with people, just to go down memory lane,” Byers said. 

The exhibit is set to coincide with a reunion being planned for Oct. 7 to 9.