The “School Days Gone By” exhibit, produced by the
Morse Museum and Cultural Centre, outlines various
aspects of rural school life in Saskatchewan from
1912 to 1979. This exhibit allows people to
reminisce or learn about the types of items you
would see in a typical small town prairie school.
The Morse Museum and Cultural Centre is an active
facility that is truly the heart of the community.
The pride begins with the struggle to save the
building itself. It began as a four room school in | 1912 and, due to the increasing population of Morse,
was expanded in 1928 with the addition of two more
rooms. In 1961, another addition to the school was
made. The school board felt it was necessary to
build a new school because the old one was deemed
unsuitable because of its size and age. The two
schools were attached and used together until the
closure of the old school in 1979. Upon closure of
the old school, it was initially slated for
demolition. However, after a significant struggle,
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