Victoria: Museum brings its insides out: Be a scientist for a day at the new Behind the Scenes exhibit

As workers and curators clamber around to transform the 10,000-square-foot space that makes up the Royal B.C. Museum’s latest exhibition, Kelly Sendall, the museum’s manager of natural history, crouches beside a frighteningly realistic mounted grizzly bear.

“What a fine-looking specimen,” jokes head designer Ken Johnson as he hurries past to a nearby display.

As its title attests, Behind the Scenes, the first segment of a two-part exhibition that runs until fall 2011, turns the museum’s walls inside out to reveal its backstage happenings. Beginning June 25, the public will get a rare glimpse of specimens and artifacts from the museum’s back rooms.

Until now, this important historical resource was kept from the public, stored in the museum’s basement laboratories. That’s because many of the specimens don’t obviously lend themselves to display, explains Sendall, the mastermind behind the exhibition.

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