BC museums
Victoria: Royal BC Museum hosts discussion forum on Coast Salish art
With only one month left to see S’abadeb – The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists, the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) and members of the Coast Salish community present a public discussion on artistic traditions. On Feb. 11, Thursday Night at the Museum Café: New Perspectives on Coast Salish Art brings together forum panellists [...]
Vancouver: About those new art galleries with Michael Audain’s name …
Soft-spoken philanthropist with a love of northwest coast art has no reservations about donating to support it The new Audain Gallery was unveiled recently at the University of B.C.’s Museum of Anthropology. Just over a week later, Simon Fraser University will open its Audain Gallery today in the SFU Woodward’s complex downtown. Both are named [...]
Royal BC Museum Receives Grants for Building Upgrades
The governments of Canada and British Columbia are investing $6 million in joint funding for important building upgrades to the Royal BC Museum. The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of State (Sport) and Member of Parliament (Saanich-Gulf Islands), on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, and the Honourable Murray [...]
D&M partners with UBC Museum of Anthropology
Douglas & McIntyre has formed a strategic partnership with the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology to produce a book series tied to the museum’s $55.5-million expansion and renewal project. The partnership kicks off with two titles: Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast by Ian M. Thom and Solitary Raven: [...]
New museum proposed for Ambleside
A new art museum is being proposed for the District of West Vancouver’s Ambleside area to replace the ageing West Vancouver Museum presently located at 17th Street and Esquimalt Avenue. The museum’s collection size and attendance volumes are presently outstripping the capacity of the facility, said Cathy Matheson, district manager of cultural affairs and partnerships, [...]
Sponsor a Museum 2009: Deadline April 20, 2009
Zero One Design is accepting applications for the 2009 Sponsor a Museum program until April 20, 2009. This is the fourth year for the program which offers smaller museums or galleries free assistance with their technological and web needs. Past recipients include the Bytown Museum in Ottawa and the Buffalo Nations Museum in Banff. Zero [...]
Maple Ridge Museum joins wired world
The Maple Ridge Museum is going high-tech to look at old times. With the help of a BC 150 grant, the museum finally has a website (www.mapleridgemuseum.org/), and with it can connect with the world. “It’s been a long-time coming,” said museum director Val Patenaude on Wednesday. The website will feature a calendar of events [...]
Sponsor a Museum 2009
Zero One Design is accepting applications for the 2009 Sponsor a Museum program until April 20, 2009. This is the fourth year for the program which offers museums or galleries free assistance with their technological and web needs. Past recipients include the Bytown Museum in Ottawa, Ontario and the Buffalo Nations Museum in Banff, Alberta. [...]
Britannia Beach: BC Museum of Mining announces 12K in subsidies for BC field trips
Teachers will have an easier time bringing students on a guided tour of the BC Museum of Mining. The museum has received an $8,500 increase in funding for travel subsidies issued to schools over last year. This addition of funds means over $12,000 is available to subsidize school field trips to visit the BC Museum [...]
Britannia Beach: BC Museum of Mining raises $174,800 for mining education and public programs! Key award of $22,000 from Association of Mineral Explor
The BC Museum of Mining is a premier organization that promotes mining awareness through fun experiential education programs, important historic collection preservation and insightful public engagement about environmental and sustainability issues.From September to December 2008, the Museum participated in a fundraising effort with the Renaissance Fund, which matched all donations raised by the Museum. During [...]
City may get new $45-million museum
Richmond could be in line for a $45-million destination museum on the scale of the Olympic Oval to rival any of its kind in BC, Canada and even North America. Plans for the museum, anticipated to attract visitors from far and wide, are still at a very early stage, but a draft feasibility study was [...]
Wrong time for museum cuts
This is the worst time to be cutting support for the Royal B.C. Museum. Yet the provincial government plans to reduce funding to the museum by almost four per cent this year — about $180,000. It will then be frozen through the next two years, despite a number of serious challenges.
