This weekend is usually when the community gathers for the Wheat Festival in Weyburn. However, with so many gathering opportunities having to be cancelled this year, the City of Weyburn has been working behind the scenes to ensure the heritage we all enjoy at this time of year can nonetheless be enjoyed by all.

If you've been missing the Wheat Festival this week, you can still take a tour of the Soo Line Historical Museum. And you don't even have to go there (which is great, because it's closed).

Museum Attendant Tanya Musk said they have created a Virtual Tour.

"You can get realy up close to the silver collection that we have. It is wildly expensive," she shared. "It was donated by Charles Wilson. He also donated an eight-legged calf from his farm. You can get up close to the calf as well."

Musk said you can go into every display, see it all in detail, take as much time as you want, and you can even leave and come back later if you want to, and enjoy the tour at your own convenience.

Find the link to the Virtual Tour HERE.

The tour is a series of detailed photographs, and not a video. In fact, it's quite similar to how the Google Streetview application works.

The same process, in fact, has also been applied to the Turner Curling Museum in Weyburn. The Turner Curling Museum has collections of curling paraphrenalia, brooms, rocks, and more, from across Canada. It features all kinds of collected pins, awards, and uniforms, all brought together in an impeccable floor-to-ceiling display.

Curlers, after all, know their sport well.

"I've walked through [The Turner Curling Museum] with people who have pointed out where all of the different floorboard ends came from," Musk noted. "They can actually literally tell me which curling rink they came from and what years they were in use. So it's really cool to have a whole bunch of history that's just so important to Saskatchewan, because everyone has curled in Saskatchewan at some point in their life."

"One of the bonuses of having the Soo Line Historical Museum and the Turner Curling Museum in a virtual tour form, is the fact that we aren't open for the summer currently, so this is a really fun thing that you can sit at home and do with your kids, and you don't have to go outside, and you don't have to work around all of the restrictions that are happening. You can do it from the comfort of your home," she shared.