McLuhan House is open to the public during regular hours from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. on the first Monday of each month!
Admission is free. Donations are gladly accepted.
Wheelchair access is not available at this time

Tours with Stuart MacKay

Join a tour of the McLuhan Family Portrait Collection with Stuart MacKay, a McLuhan historian and family cousin, on the first Monday afternoon of every month at 2:00 p.m.
Register early by contacting [email protected] to reserve your place no later than 5 p.m. on the previous business day.

McLuhan House Artist Studio Residency

Arts Habitat is pleased to host an Artist Studio Residency Program at McLuhan House. As the 2016 Artists-in-Residence, Tennis Club collective will receive one-year free access to the garage studio, embedded in Edmonton’s vibrant community of cultural workers and heritage-lovers.

For further information contact:
Chelsea Boos, Community Programmer
[email protected]

About Dr. McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a professor and media theorist who became a leading and often controversial 20th-century thinker. He lived in Edmonton as a child one hundred years ago. His early years significantly influenced his philosophical ideas, including “the medium is the message” and the global consequences of mass media, which went on to have a significant impact on international discourse about culture and technology.

Background

The childhood home of Marshall McLuhan is located in the beautiful historic Highlands neighbourhood. Arts Habitat Edmonton purchased McLuhan House with the assistance of the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Arts Council, embracing the opportunity to honour McLuhan’s legacy in Edmonton by re-purposing the property from a private residence into a centre for arts and ideas.

McLuhan House was envisioned to be:
• an interpretative space to provide a narrative about Marshall McLuhan, his connection to Edmonton and his place in history and culture
• office space for not-for-profit organizations, scholars, writers, and artists
• a garage studio for the McLuhan House Artist Studio Residency Program

McLuhan Family Portrait Collection
20 family photographs were restored and enlarged by Michael McLuhan and donated on behalf of the McLuhan Estate. They are complemented by didactic panels composed by McLuhan Genealogist and historian Stuart MacKay, a cousin of Marshall.

The McLuhan TV Wall
This intermedia art installation was created by University of Alberta students and professors made from 5 tube TVs and displaying documentary images and sounds of Marshall McLuhan’s many celebrity appearances on US and Canadian television from the early 1950s to the late 1970s.

Links
• Official Website of the Marshall McLuhan Estate – Michael McLuhan, Estate Executor

• Marshall McLuhan Speaks Special Collection – Stephanie McLuhan and Sandy Pearl, Producers

• Watch video of Marshall McLuhan’s lectures, interviews and more

• The McLuhan Bookstore offers rare books and publications by Marshall McLuhan and his collaborators – Eric McLuhan.

• University of Toronto Coach House Institute, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology offers a wide range of resources and research.

• Marshall McLuhan on Twitter

• McLuhan Galaxy Blog

• A web-based map and timeline of Marshall McLuhan–related events was created in Winter 2015 by the students in the course “Philosophy 366: Computers and Culture,” taught by Dr. John Simpson at the University of Alberta.

• Article about McLuhan’s popularity in Chinese academia written by HAN Minglan published in Canadian Social Sciences called The Appeal of Marshall McLuhan in Contemporary China