Stories from March 2026: 

Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw carvers restore century-old totem pole at Royal B.C. Museum | CBC News

B.C. Sports Hall of Fame relocates hundreds of thousands of artifacts to make way for FIFA World Cup | CBC News

New Chinese Canadian Museum Exhibit Explore Sports, Athletes, and Art Ahead of FIFA

National monument honours Cowichan sweater, knitters - Victoria Times Colonist

Closure of Courtenay war museum part of trend: UVic prof - Victoria Times Colonist

Find Just Desserts at Pitt Meadows Museum | Maple Ridge News

Royal BC Museum faces mounting financial pressures

Feasibility study looks at life after Selkirk at KSA : My Nelson Now

Aviation Museum brings back Open Cockpit Day to North Saanich | Victoria News

‘Float the Boat’ campaign aims to keep Maritime Museum of BC sailing through transition year

Stories from January 2026: 

Museum of Personal Failure exhibition turns defeat into triumph in Vancouver | CBC News

‘This is who we are’: B.C. senior constructs mini museum to showcase Canadian design

Recent Mission Museum restoration nominated for a BC Heritage Award

Online exhibit celebrates B.C. Interior town’s long Japanese-Canadian legacy | Chilliwack Progress

Ry Moran named acting CEO for Royal BC Museum

Stories from October 2025: 

https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/578284/Dinosaurs-invading-Penticton-at-visiting-museum-exhibit

https://www.cbc.ca/news/vatican-museums-indigenous-artifacts-canada-9.6946597

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sveva-caetani-vernon-bc-artist-rome-maxxi-1.7650957

https://heritagebc.ca/events-activities/annual-conference/

https://cheknews.ca/royal-bc-museum-looking-for-new-ceo-fourth-in-five-years-1285497/

https://cheknews.ca/national-toy-museum-reopens-in-downtown-victoria-with-grand-opening-weekend-1282074/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-tire-blanket-fund-9.6940989 Bonus: https://www.frequencynews.ca/news/new-museum-of-vancouver-exhibition-documents-the-lives-of-people-living-with-long-covid/

Summer Wrap-Up News Stories 2025: 

• Summer students integral to running of museum program | Northern News
• Summerland Museum hooks up fully functional telegraph machine to communicate with other museums in BC and Alberta - Castanet.net
• Lost for over a century, Heiltsuk Nation celebrates return of bentwood box | Globalnews.ca 
• 'The wrong history': After 110 years and a mislabelling, Tla'amin artifacts return home
• Historic Japanese triplexes restored at B.C.’s oldest surviving cannery - Terrace Standard
• Rare ‘medieval’ artifacts found in B.C. thrift store donated to SFU for study
• Renewal Project — Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre

This has been Muse News for Summer 2025! If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca. Join us in October for another episode of MuseNews, where we explore the latest news, announcements, and happenings from museums across bc and beyond! BCMA thanks Digital Museums Canada for their sponsorship.

Resources: 

• BCMA Podcast: NAGPRA and Consent-based Curation
• BCMA Podcast: NAGPRA In Theory, In Practice
• Candid Actionable Reconciliation Resources (CARE!)
• BCMA Indigenous Culture & Heritage Resource Portal
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• BCMA WhAi

• BCMA Podcast: NAGPRA and Consent-based Curation
• Candid Actionable Reconciliation Resources (CARE!)
• BCMA Indigenous Culture & Heritage Resource Portal
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Veronica and Marilyn share about their varied careers in education and arts and culture, as well as how they met, and a new podcast they're launching together soon.

We also chat about the connections the two of them see between Inuk and Black cultures, and the ways they hope to see intercultural solidarity when fighting discrimination and oppression.

If you enjoy this episode, stay tuned for the launch of Marilyn and Veronica's podcast- coming later this year!

*Please note that there was some background noise that could not be edited out of this episode. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope that you still enjoy the great conversation.*

This was originally recorded as a live podcast event over Zoom on June 2, 2025. During the recording, references are made to episodes from the doc-series as well as the trailer (links below).

About our guests:

Shiva Reddy is a food and wine expert and a sommelier at Michelin-starred Burdock and Co. She is recognized for her work at Vancouver’s top restaurants and bringing a fresh, innovative voice to the food and wine industry in Canada.

Priyanka Desai is a Mumbai-born, award winning broadcast journalist turned documentary filmmaker who has directed and produced television documentary shows in India and Canada. Her works are currently available on TELUS Originals, CBC Gem, APTN, Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada and AMI. She also sits on the board of Hot Docs and is Co-Chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada - Northwest Chapter.

Relevant Links:

• Trailer: Not Your Butter Chicken
• Website: Not Your Butter Chicken
• Watch the docu-series on CBC Gem

Nina’s dedication to advancing heritage arts through belonging, adaptation and respectful representation of living cultures is carried through her multifaceted work and roles in the sector. Nina sits on the Advisory Council for the BCMA, is a globally acknowledged curator, artist, and the founder of the Bandish Network.

May 2025 Stories:

• As Hudson’s Bay bids farewell, Indigenous groups call for transparency in artifact auction
• New Lytton Chinese History Museum rises from the ashes - Bella Coola News
• News Release: Vernon Public Art Gallery Announces $1,000,000 Donation
• Royal BC Museum launches music exhibit on change and resistance
• B.C. Aviation Museum is booming since the arrival of the Martin Mars
• Recognition Awards honour societies, organizations, Individuals

If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca

BCMA thanks Digital Museums Canada for their sponsorship.

April 2025 Stories:

• German artillery from First World War piece found buried at the PNE | Vancouver Sun
• New Terry Fox exhibit to open in the Canadian hero's hometown
• Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford names new executive director
• Health-care providers to prescribe nature-inspired art for wellness at Vancouver Art Gallery
• Public access to Hudson Bay Company artifacts 'absolutely crucial,' Manitoba history prof says | CBC News
• Royal BC Museum sets a new course to share stories of Chinese migration - Greater Victoria News
• Museum of Vancouver's new CEO heralds conversations and community to engage visitors
• Britannia Mine Museum featured in latest episode of 'The Last of Us'

If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca

Resources:

• SalmonVision
• Wild Salmon Center
• Pacific Salmon Foundation
• First Nations harness power of AI to monitor wild salmon stocks in B.C. | CBC News
• Using AI to track salmon could be a ‘game-changer’ | The Narwhal
• Restoring Indigenous fish weirs in B.C. | The Narwhal
• Artificial Intelligence, Meet Indigenous Fishing Technology - Wild Salmon Center

March Stories:

• West Van purchases Horseshoe Bay's Boathouse restaurant for new art museum 
• Summerland museum shares history Irish settler who helped develop the irrigation system - Penticton News - Castanet.net
• Kelowna Museum exhibit highlights Japanese Canadian dispossession
• The Whalers Washing House finally coming home - rabble.ca
• Possible 25 per cent tariff on books could kneecap local retailers 
• Horn heist: B.C. train museum gets railroaded by targeted thefts | CBC News
• Hundreds of items returned to First Nations in Vancouver Museum’s ongoing repatriation process
• Outdoor exhibits reopening at Vancouver's Science World with gardening robot, more 

February Stories:

• Nanaimo Art Gallery's new exhibit explores unexpected outcomes
• Barkerville Heritage Trust secures 7 more years running the historic site
• Surrey artist takes aim at Trump, Musk, Bezos with provocative paintings

• Exploration Place, BC Bob launch partnership for fundraiser

• ‘This is reclamation’; Tk’emlúps Kúkpi7 Casimir discusses historical designation for former residential school site
• Toddler's $4k offer ends apple pie bid war in support of Salmon Arm heritage site

We chat about how the grassroots group got started, what they hope to see happen with the South Asian Canadian Museum project, and how the community feedback process has impacted them so far.

We also delve into the ways that complicated conversations can be handled with care in community work, and why it is so crucial to understand that all racialized communities are not the same.

This episode covers some heavier topics, and we recommend that IBPOC folks especially listen with care.

*Discussions in this episode were based around the context at the time of recording, in November 2024. Please note that there have been updates since recording, including changes in political administration and the hosting of the MLF event referenced in this podcast.*

January Stories:

Rebuilding Telegraph Cove: Community Mobilizes to Restore a Vital Economic Engine - West Coast NOW 

Museum of Anthropology unveils first exhibit dedicated to the Nuxalk Nation | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s source for arts, culture, and events

Victoria museum display celebrates work of Japanese-Canadian photographer - Saanich News

Northern B.C. museum honours pioneer female pilot from the early 1900s - Quesnel Cariboo Observer

Museum of Northern BC commemorates 100 years with a reflective exhibit - Houston Today

Unmasking heritage: the rise of women carvers on the North Coast - Houston Today

Through sculpture, syilx Okanagan artist turns pictographs into towering 3D figures

If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca

In this final MuseNews of 2024, each of our hosts picked their favourite stories to reshare. Thank you to our listeners for another wonderful year of news. Happy New Year!

Stories we replayed this month:

• Coast Salish knowledge helps researchers deepen study of 160-year-old pelt from now extinct woolly dog - Windspeaker.com 
• Quilt made by over 300 Canadian, African grandmas coming to Nelson  
• Nanaimo Art Gallery group exhibit considers the importance of storytelling
• BC Sports Hall Of Fame comes alive with immersive digital Indigenous gallery 
• 'Incredible treasures' at core of reimagined and redesigned Museum of Anthropology
• Sidney Museum exhibit looks at queer history on the Peninsula 
• After 113 years, Royal B.C. Museum hands back chief's seat to coastal First Nation | Canada | Head Topics 
• Historic Martin Mars water bomber completes final flight in B.C. | CBC News 
• Sooke museum's summer team breathes new life into local history 
• Proposed Inner Harbour attraction would present Indigenous, settler experiences 'side by side'
• Louise Avery retires after 28 years at Kitimat Museum - Northern Sentinel 

In this episode, Lorenda asks: What does the future of AI look like? What does the future, with or without AI, look like?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: Why are/would we be interested in AI from an Indigenous and racialized individual perspective? 

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: Why are/would we be interested in AI from a GLAM perspective?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: What are you concerned about regarding AI?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: What are you interested in learning or knowing more about regarding AI?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: How do you currently use AI? How do the institutes that affect you use AI?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: What do you know about AI?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

In this episode, Lorenda asks: What is AI?

You can learn more about the WhAi? Project here. 

Thank you to our collaborators: 

• Elizabeth Batista, Executive Director of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society
• SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Indigenous Conservation Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and former Collections & Engagement Coordinator at the Haida Gwaii Museum
• Juan Ramirez, Software Developer and Digital Artist
• Laura-Beth McDonald, Founder of the Esquimalt Community Arts Hub, Artist, and Project Manager
• Jules André-Brown, Interim Executive Director at ArtStarts
• Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy, 221A

November Stories:

B.C. museum to honour Chinese Canadian troops who fought in war and for citizenship rights

Wet'suwet'en delegation travels to Paris to reconnect with cultural treasure

Rare 95-million-year-old dinosaur tracks found near Tumbler Ridge

Louise Avery retires after 28 years at Kitimat Museum

Margaret Chrumka Joins AGGV as Director of Visitor Experience and Programs

All aboard!: North Pole Express returns to Squamish this holiday season

If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca

October 2024 News:

• Federal funding kicks off initial upgrades of Vancouver's Space Centre
• Kamloops Art Gallery to begin search for new executive director as Chrumka bows out
• Artists re-interpret Chung Collection on the 25th anniversary of its donation to UBC
• Vernon museum collection includes numerous Indigenous records and objects it wants to return
• Jim Hughson among loaded list of BC Sports Hall of Fame inductees
• Residential school memorial created in Port Hardy dedicated at Canadian Museum of History
• Victoria Chinatown Museum to be made permanent
• Proposed Inner Harbour attraction would present Indigenous, settler experiences 'side by side'
• Greater Vernon Cultural Centre user fees will be set by RDNO, museum and art gallery
• Fort St. John Museum hosts record-breaking Halloween party
• PHOTOS: Halloween Haunt hits B.C. Aviation Museum in North Saanich
• Aldergrove museum handing out treats for 6th Halloween

If you have news you want to share on this program, please email us at bcma@museum.bc.ca.

The two chat about Madison's career in museums, how she got involved in the IBPOC Network, and her current exhibit at UVIC Legacy Art Gallery, "Rooting For Reclamation".

Jazmin and Madison also dive into the details of what drives the work of the IBPOC Network, the joys and challenges of working with their own communities, and their hopes for the future of this sector.

Take a listen below and get to know the BCMA's newest staff member!

August 2024 News:

• First Nations artefacts coming home from Canada after museum deal
• One of the world's oldest sacred shrines could return to remote Indigenous settlement in B.C.
• Kelowna's museum gets a front entrance freshen-up after 57 years
• Historic Barkerville reopens after wildfire evacuation
• Historic Martin Mars water bomber completes final flight in B.C.
• Fashion designer brings work back to Haida roots in new exhibit
• Ellen Neel’s Kakaso’las totem pole to return to UBC
• Film society general manager makes move across street to Kamloops Art Gallery

To learn more:

RBCM Community Engagement Kamloops Museum and Archives riverpeoplenationstatepeople Secwépemc Museum and Heritage Park

*at the time of recording, Chris was the acting Director of Community Engagement but has now returned to his role as Program Developer in the Learning and Engagement Department. 

July 2024 News:

• Robert Bateman's lesser known works to be on display in Penticton | CBC News
• $19 million in additional federal funding for Science World's critical upgrades
• Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine considers new funding model for Heritage Park Museum - Terrace Standard  
• Japanese Canadian curator, activist Grace Eiko Thomson dead at 90 | CBC News 
• Pentlatch fish trap panel on exhibit at Vancouver Island University Marine Field Station - Comox Valley Record
• After 113 years, Royal B.C. Museum hands back chief's seat to coastal First Nation | Canada | Head Topics
• Indigenous art exhibit highlights mentorship and motherhood - Nanaimo News Bullet

June 2024 News:

Nelson Museum opens permanent installation celebrating LGBTQ2S+ history in the Kootenays

B.C. Museum of Anthropology reopening after 18-month seismic upgrade

Une exposition numérique met en valeur l’histoire des ranchers francophones de la C.-B

Sidney Museum exhibit looks at queer history on the Peninsula  

Exploration Place names new executive director Two hinkeets masks, created by Tla-o-qui-aht artist, make their way at Museum of Vancouver

To submit your Muse News or Whoo's News, email bmca@museum.bc.ca

This months news:

Curator of Peace Gallery North bidding farewell to Fort St. John

North Van exhibition pays ode to Vancouver prop house 

Unveiling Gender: New exhibit explores representation at Sooke Region Museum 

Nanaimo Museum showcasing history of Japanese-Canadian internment  

Maple Ridge Museum earns award for Japanese Canadian exhibit

Kitimat to host first ever all Haisla community art show | CFNR Network

Snuneymuxw First Nation repatriates nearly 100 items from the Royal BC Museum

Resources:

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (U.S. National Park Service)

Interior Department Announces Final Rule for Implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act - Province of British Columbia

Research and Film Applications

How Museums Can Respond to Residential School Denialism - BCMA

BCMA Book Club

The Repatriation Handbook

If you'd like to get in touch with James, click here

April 2024 News:

• BC Sports Hall Of Fame comes alive with immersive digital Indigenous gallery
• Grants allows Keremeos’ Grist Mill to hire more summer students - Penticton Western News
• Historic Chinese, Canadian Pacific Railway and Klondike collections unite in new UBC museum
• Rebuilding starts on Lytton's Chinese History Museum
• Royal BC Museum gets $250K donation to digitize Indigenous AV collection - Greater Victoria News
• Nanaimo museum looks at Chinese citizens shipped in secret through Canada during First World War
• Construction begins on new Vancouver Art Gallery, featuring traditional Coast Salish design
• Province to provide $250,000 to help preserve iconic Martin Mars water bomber

March 2024 News:

• Lantern designed by acclaimed First Nations artist stolen outside Vancouver Art Gallery 
• Nanaimo Art Gallery group exhibit considers the importance of storytelling 
• Exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery aims to push boundaries of how art is viewed - Okanagan | Globalnews.ca
• VIDEO: Personal connections help B.C. museum Lancaster restoration soar - Goldstream News Gazette 
• Kelowna museum trots out old fashions for new show | News | kelownadailycourier.ca 
• Summerland museum moves their extensive artifact collection online - Penticton News - Castanet.net 
• Vancouver's Science World closed Monday due to fire | CBC News 
• Royal BC Museum announces the name of new major second campus | Urbanized

To submit your Muse News or Whoo’s News, email bmca@museum.bc.ca

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT

Since 2020, we have globally seen a rise in remote and hybrid work, but as we return to a “new normal,” many workplaces are abandoning these models. However, many museums, galleries, and heritage sites have limited workspace, equipment, accessibility, and funding obligations that make the idea of hiring a remote or hybrid employee simultaneously intriguing and complicated.  

On January 24, join Tammy Bradford for a webinar on the ins and outs of embracing work-from-home and hybrid positions in your workplace. Tammy will discuss the Creston Museum’s process of creating hybrid positions, the multifaceted benefits of work-from-home positions for both employers and employees and some specific objections and hesitations that the Creston Museum has had to address in their process.

February 2024 news:

New Indigenous heist movie focuses on repatriation of belongings

Executive director for Revelstoke Railway Museum to retire

No return date set for Vancouver Public Library's Inspiration Pass

Exploration Place announces retirement of CEO Tracy Calogheros

Quilt made by over 300 Canadian, African grandmas coming to Nelson

Sidney Museum puts on block party with Lego exhibit

To submit your Muse News or Whoo's News, email bmca@museum.bc.ca

Stories for the month of January 2024:

• A tangled mess: Canadian forgery scandal comes into full public view
• Seismic upgrades at UBC Museum of Anthropology Great Hall to wrap up in June 2024 — Stir
• Cost of living and inflation are key concerns as GVPTA releases 2023 B.C. Arts, Culture, & Heritage Sector Insights Report — Stir
• KPU Richmond students breathe new life into donated wood for museum display
• A 112-year-old train is still chugging in Prince George, B.C., but budget concerns could take it off the rails | CBC News
• Coast Salish knowledge helps researchers deepen study of 160-year-old pelt from now extinct woolly dog - Windspeaker.com
• Royal BC Museum offers free tickets to low-income members of city program

Suggested opportunities: 

• University of British Columbia’s Master of Museum Education Program
• University of Victoria’s Culture Resource Management Program
• University of Victoria’s Visitor and Community Engagement Certificate 
• Visitor Studies Association Conference
• Athabasca University – Advanced Issues in Interpretive Programming
• Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series 
• Interpretation Canada Online Conference 
• Canadian Association of Science Communicators Workshops and Conference

In this final MuseNews of 2023, each of our hosts picked their favourite stories to reshare. Thank you to our listeners for another wonderful year of news. Happy New Year!

Stories we replayed this month:

• ‘Honoured properly’: Protocols put in place for Indigenous exhibit at Vancouver’s Science World
• Nuxalk Nation celebrates return of totem pole from Royal B.C. Museum
• A sawmill storage house in southeast B.C. was home to North America’s first gurdwara, researcher says
• Rare blankets made from fur of extinct woolly dog on display at North Vancouver museum
• New Paldi museum celebrates Punjabi Sikh history – Victoria Times Colonist
• This jellyfish was the terror of the sea 500 million years ago
• World-renowned artists open new gallery in small community of Enderby, B.C
• B.C.’s new fossil emblem an 80-million-year-old marine reptile called elasmosaur – Burnaby Now
• A special story from Santa: B.C baker, museum team up for fundraiser selling cookies made from early 20th-century recipes

In this latest episode of our ongoing Climate Leadership & Action for Museums podcast series, Sean describes the work that the Climate Disaster Project does with climate-disaster survivors to share and investigate their stories. They discuss how the Climate Disaster Project came to be, their trauma-informed practice, the role of museums and cultural institutions in times of crisis, and more.

• Climate Disaster Project
• BC Heritage Emergency Network
• Extreme Weather Events Resource for Museums
• Surviving, in Their Own Words
• Profiles of resilience: The Climate Disaster Project

Stories for the month of November 2023:

• Expansion Project at shawnigan lake museum nets $500,000 grant

• BC government begins planning South Asian museum in Metro Vancouver

• BC filmmaker races to interview Canada’s Second World War veterans before they are all gone

• Exploration Place celebrates milestones

• B.C. Vintage Truck Museum could lose its home with six months’ notice

Stories for the month of October 2023:

• News release - Famed Indigenous carver's 57-year old totem returns home to his family 
• New monster museum opens in Burnaby | CityNews Vancouver 
• New exhibit at The Reach in Abbotsford highlights South Asian history 
• Nanaimo Art Gallery exhibit invites viewers to breathe deeply
• Vancouver has Canada's only public art gallery dedicated to contemporary Asian, Asian-diasporic perspectives
• B.C.'s new fossil emblem an 80-million-year-old marine reptile called elasmosaur - Burnaby Now

Featured News for September 2023:

Opinion: The Okanagan Mountain Fire forever changed our landscape and our psyche 

Nanaimo Museum considers the sacred in Coast Salish art revitalization exhibit - Vancouver Island Free Daily 

Racist policies against Chinese revealed in new Coquitlam Heritage exhibit

Royal B.C. Museum collections building underway after First Nations blessing

Welcome to the Digital Dialogues discussion series. Over the next several months, the BC Museums Association will be joined by experts, innovators, and critical thinkers to discuss the societal effects of technology to equip the sector with the tools to make ethical equity-informed steps toward digital innovation.

In the rush to embrace new and seemingly innovative technologies, it can be easy to start using these tools in our work without first thinking about their broader social, environmental, and cultural impacts. The Digital Dialogues series is designed to complement the 2023 gathering on Haida Gwaii, to help make additional space for important discussions that can’t fit into the agenda and to help continue dialogues sparked at the event.

To learn more about this discussion series, visit: https://museum.bc.ca/brain/digital-dialogues-series

The Digital Dialogues are supported by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Featured News for August 2023:

• World-renowned artists open new gallery in small community of Enderby, B.C
• Vancouver translator finally compensated for unauthorized work in British Museum
• 'We can achieve the impossible': Nisga'a delegation to return home with memorial pole
• This jellyfish was the terror of the sea 500 million years ago
• Archaeological dig uncovers remnants of WSÁNEĆ village dating back more than 1,000 years
• Canada's oldest Chinese temple in Victoria throws fundraiser for repairs

Links: 

Yilin Wang Website

British Museum Statement

Yilin Statement

Qiu Jin

They discuss the work Nicole has done to transform the Indigenous spaces at the museum, including the Cedar Grove, Matriarch's Garden, and Indigenous Learning House.

Jazmin and Nicole also chat about the value of intersectional storytelling and representation in heritage sites, the power dynamics that come into play when determining what counts as history, and the incredible importance of including contemporary Indigenous stories in combatting harmful colonial myths.

We’re always looking to share stories of professionals and organizations working hard to improve representation of racialized communities! If you would like to be a guest on the IBPOC Network podcast, please reach out to Jazmin at communications@museum.bc.ca.

Featured News for July 2023:

• Kelowna gallery featuring art of 96-year-old Canadian painter and printmaker this summer
• New permanent exhibition opens at Qualicum Beach Museum
• New Paldi museum celebrates Punjabi Sikh history - Victoria Times Colonist
• Supersonic jet heads to Victoria via complex highway journey
• RCMP investigating after Kelowna Art Gallery trans pride flag torn down 3 times in 1 month | CBC News
• Vintage mahogany reclaimed and redone in imaginative new Vancouver museum exhibit
• Vancouver art exhibition honours Black lives lost while interacting with police | CBC News

Featured News for June 2023

• Britannia Mine Museum brings back 'Old Town, New Queens'
• Tumbler Ridge archivist celebrated
• British Museum apologizes for using Canadian translator's work without permission
• B.C. First Nation buys back 140-year-old robe, paying almost $40K to bring it home
• B.C.'s last Martin Mars water bomber could be headed to Victoria museum
• B.C. Indigenous artist collecting sounds across Canada for virtual Witness Blanket

Featured News for May 2023:

• Prince George art gallery names new executive director

• ‘Overdue’: B.C. First Nations welcome Pope’s hint that Vatican will return Indigenous artifacts

• BC government provides $20 million to repair Science World's leaky dome

• Sacred Journey makes a splash as it lands at Victoria’s Royal B.C. Museum

• Chilliwack Museum saw exhibition admissions more than double to 5,086 in 2022

• Indigenous artifact to return to Squamish Nation following Prince Edward visit

• Rare blankets made from fur of extinct woolly dog on display at North Vancouver museum

More News We Couldn't Fit In! 

• Britannia Mine Museum Marks 100 Years of BC's Mill No.3
• Victoria Dinosaur Museum if a Hands on Experience
• New Exhibit at Port Moody Station Museum Reflects on South Asian Immigration
• New Exhibit explores Legacy of Haida Artist Bill Reid alongside contemporary Indigenous Art 
• Museum of Surrey's Spring Exhibits

BC Museum Portraits, Interview with Spencer Stuart

Spencer Stuart is travelling across British Columbia speaking with museum workers in communities large and small as part of the BC Museum Portraits project. Join Spencer and BCMA Program Manager Lorenda Calvert for a discussion about shared themes from these museum portraits and reflect on the valuable role that museums and their workers play in their communities.

• Penticton Art Gallery's full funding restored

• A sawmill storage house in southeast B.C. was home to North America's first gurdwara, researcher says

• B.C. pledges $10M funding boost for Chinese Canadian Museum ahead of opening

• Organization looking for permanent home to house Terry Fox collection
• Whistler Museum inks land transfer, launches fundraising portal for new building
• Buster, a dinosaur unique to B.C., comes to life in new exhibit

Also, Lorenda Calvert reports live from the Canadian Museums Association's Hill Day in Ottawa.

Featured News for March 2023:

• Vancouver Chinatown's new Chinese Canadian Museum to open this summer
• Royal BC Museum brings public engagement tour to Kelowna
• New exhibit in Prince George gallery brings personal perspective to Métis history
• Vancouver Island community receives $254K grant to protect Indigenous artifacts from natural disasters
• Penticton Art Gallery to appear before council after having funding cut, mayor says
• Historic Point Ellice House closing in Victoria
• Climate activist spreads paint on mammoth at Royal B.C. Museum

Resources: 

Museums and Decent Work Youtube Channel

Aiding and Addressing Burnout

Living wages in BC and its benefit to your site and staff

Demystifying Unions

How Labour Relations Impact Emergency Planning in Museums

• Emotional return of house post connecting B.C.’s Gitxaala Nation to their ancestors
• Chilliwack Museum’s latest exhibit unpacks the effects of Japanese Canadian internment
• Two Rivers Gallery to feature unique Quebec art installation
• Nuxalk Nation celebrates return of totem pole from Royal B.C. Museum
• Art exhibit in Richmond, B.C., celebrates Black expression, connection

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

Join the BCMA and Dr. Genevieve Hill, Curator of Archeology at the Royal BC Museum, to talk about all things archeological repositories! Log on and learn who archeological repositories are and what they do, their history and how they came to be, and some current issues and opportunities pertaining to repositories such as repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural belongings, UNDRIP/DRIPA, and working with indigenous communities. Dr. Hill will also cover things to consider when preparing cultural material for a repository and where to find support. 

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

12:00noon – 1:00pm PDT

Good records management is essential to any organization. From paper files to emails, having a plan to manage the vast amount of information in our organizations can make a world of difference for operational efficiency, productivity and good decision-making.

Join the BCMA and Bronwen Bird of Gallery 2 for this engaging webinar on the fundamentals of records management. Learn how to create a vision and strategic plan for your records management, dive into surveying and evaluating your current records management practices and craft a records manual and filing system. You will leave the webinar with a deeper appreciation for records management and with tips on how to implement records management changes.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Join the BCMA and the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) for this engaging and important webinar. The BCGEU is one of the largest and most diverse unions in British Columbia who represent over 80,000 members in 550 bargaining units in the private sector and public services. In this webinar, Kari Michaels, Executive Vice President of the BCGEU, will explore what a union is, how they work, the steps required to unionize and what changes if you form a union.

Featured News for January 2023:

• Lack of public art policy jeopardizes Vernon gallery funding
• Vancouver museum holds important piece of history from wreck believed to contain millions in gold
• Extraordinary life of Chief Dan George reflected in Okanagan museum exhibit
• ‘Honoured properly’: Protocols put in place for Indigenous exhibit at Vancouver’s Science World
• Million-dollar donation buoys Maritime Museum move plan
• Royal B.C. Museum returning totem to remote First Nation

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022

As the population of our province ages, we will all be affected by dementia - as friends and family members, neighbors, and people in the workforce. Join us for a foundational conversation about dementia, signs and symptoms, effective communication strategies, and practical tools to support clients living with dementia.  We can all play a role in making our community more inclusive and accessible for people with lived experiences. Please join the Alzheimer Society of B.C. for the session, Q&A, and resources on how you can make your workplace more dementia-friendly.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2022

Join the BCMA, Living Wage for Families BC, the Vancouver Foundation, and Centre A for this valuable and timely webinar. A living wage is an opportunity for employers to do better. A living wage calls on employers to meet a higher standard for staff, to ensure that wages reflect the true costs of living in a community and that parents can earn what they need to support their families.

Paying a Living Wage has benefits for your site and your staff and can reduce staff turnover, recruitment, and training costs, and can increase morale, productivity, and brand awareness. Participants in this webinar will learn about the benefits of paying a living wage and how to become a Living Wage Employer. Hear from the Vancouver Foundation on why they fund Living Wage Employers and from Centre A on the benefits they've seen since becoming a Living Wage Employer.

Go beyond the discussion of emergency plans, fire drills, phone trees, and training and really look at the role labour relations can play in the safety and security of your site and staff.

Join Valerie Marlow, Assistant Director of Archives and Collections at the Disaster Research Center, and Cornelia Posch, Research Assistant, E.L. Quarantelli Resource Collection for our latest BCMA podcast as they discuss the role your staff plays in emergency preparedness. 

Resources: 

• Emergency Planning Resources for Cultural Organizations
• BC HERN
• Canadian Conservation Institute
• BCMA BRAIN Climate and Emergency Resources

Wednesday, June 1st, 2022

Burnout can manifest out of extreme and prolonged stress and can leave us feeling exhausted, discouraged, overwhelmed and unmotivated. The World Health Organization categorizes burnout by three symptoms: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion, negativity or cynicism related to your job, and reduced professional efficacy.

Join the BCMA and go2HR to learn about burnout, recognize its signs and symptoms and add tools to your toolkit on how to aid and address burnout. 

• Doug Patton, Curator
• Rob McWilliam, Secretary on the Board

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

• Allie Rose Bartlett, Curatorial Assistant

• Matthew Lovegrove, Manager/ Curator

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

• Conrad Pilon, Museum member
• Tony Threlfall, Museum member
• Chris Marshall, Collaborative manager at Salt Spring Island Archivist

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Photos and links to some of the things discussed in this episode can be found below. If you’d like to get in contact with Sharn, please email her at sharanjit.sandhra@gmail.com.

We’re always looking to share stories of professionals and organizations working hard to improve representation of racialized communities! If you would like to be a guest on the IBPOC Network podcast, please reach out to Jazmin at communications@museum.bc.ca.

Featured news for December 2022:

• Gabriola Island Museum Requests Funding for Sustainable Operations
• Scottish museum to return stolen totem pole in new year
• Whistler Museum eyeing major building upgrade
• Iconic Vancouver museum shutting down for most of 2023
• Reconciliation in the private art world: How Taku River Tlingit brought home their robe
• From outcasts to mainstream, B.C. museum showcases the evolution of snowboarding

• Mechelle Crocker, Executive Board Member
• Carol Robson, Executive Board Member
• Mary Jean Elliott, Executive Board Member

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

• Liz Ciocea, Director
• Joan Merrifield, President
• Laura Baldamus, Museum Manager
• Janet Stobbs, Archivist
• Chris Campbell, Director
• Gloria Filax, Former Board Member
• Alison Douglas, Former Board Member

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

• DD Fuchs, Board Member
• Barry Landeen, Archivist
• Ann Paisley, Museum display & collections

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Featured news for November 2022:

• Prince George museum re-opens with new look
• Darn-it! New Maritime Museum of BC Exhibit opens
• Chinese Canadian Museum names first Chief Executive
• Ancient bison bones unearthed at Saanich construction site
• Volunteers seek to uncover ‘paper trail’ of Japanese Canadian dispossession
• Pitt Meadows Museum nears finish line of relocation planning
• New interactive, online exhibit features Richmond’s turning points

To submit your Muse News or Whoo's News, email bmca@museum.bc.ca

• Bonnie MacDonald, Executive Board Member
• Laurel Bohart, Curator, Wild Cortes
• Jill Milton, Archivist
• Melanie Boyle, Managing Director

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Featured news for October 2022:

• The Richmond Museum's new exhibition, The Arts Live Here, celebrates the city's vibrant art scene with a wide range of exhibits
• Museum exhibit highlights Truth and Reconciliation Day for Westbank First Nation Sncəwips Museum premiering “What Does it Mean to be Syilx?”
• B.C. Aviation Museum lands both a retired air tanker and its long-time pilot
• Exploration Place reopening next Saturday
• Seasonal Spooky News
  • Eerie Illusions
  • Movies at the Morgue 
  • Halloween Block Party
  • Ladysmith Museum in the Dark

Please note that this recording was originally a panel presentation, so you will hear cues like “next slide” and other such notes.

You can always find the most recent issue of Roundup on the BCMA homepage, on the right side. A new issue of Roundup will be published online in October, featuring a reflection piece from Beth and Chief Dawson, along with our regular column from Tammy Bradford, and other articles featuring various projects from around the province! Stay tuned!

In this episode, Leia talks to fellow BCMA staffer Lorenda Calvert about Burning Man arts and culture. Lorenda shares how she got involved in Burning Man, Black Rock City as a large-scale art gallery, and three ‘museums’ at Burning Man. Finally, we chat about the sector in general and how some of the teachings at Burning Man might help shake up how we engage the public. 

Links from our conversation:

More About Burning Man

Learn about Mutant Vehicles

Heavy Meta

El Pulpo Mecanico by Duane Flatmo and Jerry Jerry Kunkel

The Midnight Museum of That One time at Burning Man by Jerry Snyder

Learn about MOOP and leaving no trace at Burning Man

The Museum of No Spectators by John Marx and Absinthia Vermut

We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Featured news for September 2022:

• Vernon art gallery stunned by council decision to decline mural project with mental health focus | Globalnews.ca 
• Tumbler Ridge fossils identified - BC News - Castanet.net
• Royal B.C. Museum apologizes after 2017 carving declared ancient Indigenous artifact 
• Nisga'a Nation travelling to see stolen totem pole in Scotland - APTN News
• What is a museum? Icom finally decides on a new definition
• Indigenous objects repatriated from small British museum come home to Haida Gwaii
• 'Come in and explore': BC Aviation Museum holds first open house since pandemic 
• Thor Froslev, founder of B.C.'s eagle count and Squamish art gallery, dead at 89 | CBC News  Human rights museum chooses Vancouver to launch digital residential school initiative

The BCMA has asked members for questions they have about how local governments work in British Columbia. Join Marijke and me as we discuss everything from “what’s a regional district,” to the importance of building relationships with local government staff, to why local government elections all happen at the same time.

In this episode, Leia talks to Marley Leacock, the astronomer at the H.R MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver about the James Webb Space Telescope. Marley provides a brief review of the development and launch of the telescope - including some details about the Canadian Space Agency's involvement - before we dig into two of the images released to the public in July. Finally, we chat about how space centres will keep up with the expected influx of data and images from the Webb Telescope.

Related Links:

The Webb Telescope Website

Links to the Deep Field Image and the Carina Nebula Image discussed in the show.

Image of Stephan's Quintet Marley discussed.

Marley's blog post on the Telescope background and about the Scientific Mission goals

Canadian Space Agency NIRISS Transmission Spectrum of WASP-96B

To see the oldest galaxy pointed out in the Deep Field Image, look here!

We will have more episodes in this series coming this summer of 2022 - Stay tuned for more!

We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Featured news for June 2022:

• New museum curator takes fresh approach to Terrace history
• Museum exhibit celebrates origins of unique Nanaimo street names
• Free admission for everyone 18 years old and under at Vancouver Art Gallery
• Catholic order that staffed some residential schools in BC to hand over archives to museum
• Qualicum Beach Museum exhibit explores dark chapter of Canadian history
• Fort Nelson Heritage Museum curator receives Award of Recognition
• 'I made the wrong call': Horgan scraps $789M Royal BC Museum rebuild

In this BCMA Podcast episode, hear from two Haida Gwaii residents engaged in these efforts to strengthen local, sustainable food systems and how the HGFS will, in part, serve as a public repository of local food system knowledge.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) is a group of more than 1,300 cultural heritage professionals working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack.

In today’s episode, Ryan Hunt and Tanya Paholock of the BCMA are joined by Dr. Kimberley Martin to discuss SUCHO, the importance of online cultural heritage, and how you can help preserve Ukrainian heritage.

You can learn more about SUCHO and their work online at https://www.sucho.org/

We will have more episodes in this series coming this summer of 2022 - Stay tuned for more!

We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council. Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Featured news for May 2022:

• Iconic hall of UBC Museum of Anthropology now demolished for redevelopment | Urbanized 
• What's in a costume?: Burnaby Village Museum tackles reconciliation through clothing 
• Restored exhibit highlighting Indigenous peoples in BC to open at New York museum | CBC 
• News
• Museum of Anthropology exhibit showcases social-change-making Xicanx artists 
• LGBTQ+ sailors in the spotlight at new Maritime Museum of B.C. exhibit 
• Royal BC Museum to be rebuilt at the cost of $789M | CBC News 
• After over a decade, Vancouver's museum show of 'ugly' neon signs is turning off the lights

Angelic chats with us about queer and trans futures within museum and gallery spaces, the possibilities when queer and trans artists are supported, spiritual justice, long-term inclusion frameworks, and more.

You can visit the Transgender Expressions Haven here: https://thehaven.lgbt/ 

Mentioned in this podcast:

Alok Vaid-Menon: https://www.alokvmenon.com/about 

Writing New Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i27YaBjzYqY

Kimya Dawson, Utopian Futures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFiP4wo0S0 

Sign on to the Repatriation Call to Action through our Indigenous Resource Portal, and learn more about Sarah Jim's artwork on the BCMA website. Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Join the BCMA and ACRE for a digital fireside chat with Dr. Henry Yu, history professor and Asian Canadian Community Engagement Initiative (ACCE) co-chair at UBC and Ryan Hunt, BCMA Executive Director exploring how museums can confront difficult truths about our past and present and work towards building a brighter future.

Thank you for joining us today. Find the full BC Museums Week schedule on our website. Use our exclusive BC Museums Week promocode JoinBCMA2022 for a 25% discount to all new membership applications.

Useful links:

• ACRE (Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement): https://www.arts.ubc.ca/acre/
• INSTRCC (Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies): https://instrcc.ubc.ca/
• ACAM (Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies minor program): https://acam.arts.ubc.ca/

• National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: https://events.ubc.ca/national-forum-on-anti-asian-racism/
• Chinatown Reimagined: https://www.chinatownreimagined.ca/
• Fish Tales (partnership with Gulf of Georgia Cannery): https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/whatsyourfishtale/
• Backyard Garden (partnership with Museum of Vancouver): https://museumofvancouver.ca/backyard-garden
• Paper Trail: https://1923-chinese-exclusion.ca/
• Chinatown, Existing field trip: http://chinatownexisting.ca/

ScienceUpFirst is a national initiative that works with a collective of independent scientists, researchers, health care experts and science communicators. They share the best available science in creative ways to stop the spread of misinformation. 

Join us for a conversation on how misinformation and disinformation are spread and how to address them. 

Throughout this conversation, we weave through a variety of topics including, what is the "war within a war" happening in Ukraine right now for LGBTQIA+ community and how is the LGBTQIA+ movement intertwined in Ukraine's fight for sovereignty? Further, how can the museum, cultural and heritage sector support Ukraine and the LGBTQIA+ community at this critical time?

0:00- Intro/background to collective heritage loss in Ukraine 3:15- What is gay heritage, how can heritage be a verb and how does history live in our bodies? (The Gay Heritage Project, This is Something Else, Project Humanity) 9:00- 15:53 - The arts and crisis 16:02- 21:50 - Current war in Ukraine and how the LGBTQIA+ community is affected  21:53- We Support LGBTQ Ukraine Fund and the Chevron initiative 30:00- What is the role of the museum, cultural and heritage sector? 

43:44- What is your vision for queer or trans futures? 

To donate to the We Support LGBTQ Ukraine Fund, visit: https://veritascharityservices.com/campaigns/we-support-lgbtq-ukraine-fund/ 

In part two of this two-part episode, Carmel and Alysa discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on the Oral History Project, and on JQT's process of becoming a nonprofit. 

In part one of this two-part episode, Carmel and Alysa discuss the intergenerational and community engagement aspects of their project, advice for other institutions/organizations who might be interested in engaging in similar work, and more. 

You can find out more about the BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project here: https://www.jqtvancouver.ca/jqt-oral-history-bc

To learn more about JQT Vancouver: https://www.jqtvancouver.ca/

To learn more about the Jewish Museum & Archives of BC: https://jewishmuseum.ca/about/ 

Featured news for April 2022:

• BC Chinese community raises more than $50,000 for burned Lytton museum | Vancouver Sun
• ​​Former UBC students, curator reflect on decolonizing Museum of Anthropology's African collections | CBC News
• The Cold War Bunker Under a Post Office | The Tyee
• UFV project brings awareness to South Asian history and contributions – Abbotsford News
• Two Abbotsford arts organizations receive more than $75K in recovery funds
• Art Gallery of Greater Victoria names new director

The heritage and culture sector is privileged to support research, education, and action against climate change. This Earth Day, the BC Museums Association has invited some in our sector and the community at large to share, inspire, and help educate us all on the importance and interconnectedness of climate and the cultural heritage sector.

In this episode, hear how The Potato House Project integrates sustainability into their work and the importance of community for the success of their organization.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

The heritage and culture sector is privileged to support research, education, and action against climate change. This Earth Day, the BC Museums Association has invited some in our sector and the community at large to share, inspire, and help educate us all on the importance and interconnectedness of climate and the cultural heritage sector.

In this episode, hear how RAVEN approaches work with Indigenous communities and how these relationships influence how they discuss the environment.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

In this episode, Amelia shares with us about her approaches to exhibition design and community engagement; how cisgender privilege shows up in museum spaces and in how we talk about trans histories; thinking about audience engagement and who we are designing exhibits for, and more.

Amelia's work seeks to bridge the gap between transgender studies and queer museology. Upon finding little addressing this topic, she took it upon herself to create it. Her website "Not Your Average Cistory" has grown into a home for exploring the various ways that museums can be viewed through a transgender lens. Check it out here:  http://www.notyouraveragecistory.com/ You can also find Amelia on Twitter: @NTURAvrgCistory 

If you would like to take action against the anti-trans bills that Amelia mentions in this episode, the American Civil Liberties Union is doing great work to fight for the rights, health, safety, and wellbeing of trans people in the midst of ongoing anti-trans legislation: https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbtq-rights/transgender-rights

References in this episode:

Framing Agnes https://www.framingagnes.com/

Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum https://www.participatorymuseum.org/

Mary Weissman Toward a Transgender Archaeology (in the Transgender Studies Reader)

Clare Sears Arresting Dress (Duke University Press)

Featured news for March 2022:

• Chilliwack Museum sets high water mark with opening reception of Qoqo 
• The possibilities for this small-town time machine are truly endless 
• Vancouver Islander leads nation-wide project showcasing innovation 
• Victoria Classic Boat Festival to return to Inner Harbour after 2-year hiatus | CTV 
• Northwest projects among recipients of $10 million provincial Heritage BC grant – Kitimat Northern Sentinel
• News 
• Century old-plus bottles bring Metro Vancouver Chinese workers' history to light