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Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month, we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. 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.
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. 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
Join our host Lorenda and Dr. Will Atlas, Salmon Watershed Scientist, for a conversation about SalmonVision. In partnership with Indigenous communities, SalmonVision harnesses the power of AI for salmon monitoring and conservation. Explore rivers, waterways, and an ethical side of AI. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. 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
In this episode, Jazmin and Madison are joined by Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandra and Melvin Sedeora of Museum Liberation Force. 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.*
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month, we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, Lorenda, and a special guest as we explore our favourite MuseNews! 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
What is AI? Join our host, Lorenda Calvert, and members of our sector for this eight-part series discussing AI and its implications for our sector and community. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest breaking news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia and Ryan as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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.
In this episode, Jazmin Hundal is joined by fellow BCMA team member and IBPOC Network co-coordinator Madison Bridal. 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!
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Join our host Lorenda Calvert, and her guests, Chris O'Connor, Director of Community Engagement and Regional Partnerships at the Royal BC Museum, Julia Cyr, Museum Supervisor at the Kamloops Museum and Archives, Diena Jules, Language and Culture Department Manager, and Elsie Joe, Curator at the Secwépemc Museum & Heritage Park Curator, for this community conversation. To learn more: RBCM Community Engagement Kamloops Museum and Archives riverpeoplenationstatepeople Secwépemc Museum and Heritage Park
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Get to know Madison Bridal, the BCMA's new Special Projects Coordinator, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Join our host Lorenda and SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Collections & Engagement Coordinator at Saahlinda Naay - the Haida Gwaii Museum, for a conversation about the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Museums must prioritize consent-based curation. Consider how your organization approaches repatriation and truth-telling. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Ryan as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
This episode was converted from a recorded webinar. 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.
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Join our host Lorenda for a conversation about the new Inspiring Museum Educators Bursary. Established with the support of Dr. Lisa McIntosh in 2023, this bursary encourages the pursuit of excellence in education within the museum, gallery, and heritage sector. The Inspiring Museum Educators Bursary provides up to $2,000 for staff or volunteers of BC Museums Association's Institutional or Individual Members, to engage in an educational opportunity (course, seminar, workshop, or conference) that supports the development of new skills, innovative approaches and novel ways of thinking about teaching and learning in informal settings. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, Lorenda and special guest Santa as we explore our favourite MuseNews! 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
Join our host Lorenda Calvert in conversation with Sean Holman of the Climate Disaster Project. Sean is the Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism at the University of Victoria, a former investigative journalist, and an information historian. 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia and Lorenda, as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
We live in a complicated world. And with the explosion of AI tools over the past year that promise to blur the line between the real and the imaginary, it isn't looking like life will get any simpler in the foreseeable future. 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.
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia and Ryan, as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Join the BCMA and Literary Translator, Yilin Wang as we chat about the British Museums theft of her translated work, lack of apology, and complete mismanaging of the experience. Museums can and should have a plan in place to recognize and compensate for copyrighted work. Consider how your organization approaches this work and also how your organization approaches mistakes. Links: Yilin Wang Website British Museum Statement Yilin Statement Qiu Jin
In this episode, listen as IBPOC Network Coordinator Jazmin Hundal and Indigenous Education Programmer Nicole Priessl chat while on location at Burnaby Village Museum. 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.
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Ryan, as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Leia, with Ryan on location, as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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 Museums Week 2023: 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.
News from this episode: 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.
Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA's monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews! 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
Join the BCMA and Point Ellice House Assistant Curator, Christeah Dupont, as we chat about one of museum's biggest problems: decent work. Museum staff are overworked, underfunded, undersupported, and very often underappreciated - the sustainability of our sector may very well hinge on our support of decent work. 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
February 2023 news: 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
This is a recording from a webinar. 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.
This is a recording from a webinar. 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.
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