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Join the BC Museums Association as we explore topics of importance to the cultural heritage community in BC, and around the world. Listen as we talk with sector professionals, volunteers, and other guests about their work in BC museums, galleries, and arts & culture institutions.
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Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
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!
Featured News:
- Sidney Museum and Archives names gallery after long-time executive director
- B.C. Truck Museum keeps running behind the scenes
- Renowned Caetani Artwork Returned to Vernon
- B.C. city gives Ogopogo copyright to First Nation
- Rare collection of historical Arctic photographs digitized
- Revelstoke Museum & Archives weathers the COVID storm
- Darling Dung Beetle Discovered at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum
- Century-old photo found in library book returned to its owner in Kelowna
- Vancouver Art Gallery Receives Two One Million Dollar Gifts
- BC museum creating collection of COVID-19 pandemic artifacts for future generations to study
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
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!
Featured News:
- Maritime Museum's director retiring, but effort to build new exhibit space continues
- MOA Show Looks at Art and the Survival of Hope after Devastation
- Point Ellice House in Victoria looks to patch up during pandemic
- Historic mug shots offer glimpse into Vancouver's bad old days
- Blaze at Heritage Acres results in nearly $20,000 in damages, no exhibits impacted
- Burnaby reopens village museum for spring break
- A new ghostly exhibit opens at the Maritime Museum of BC this week
- Victoria’s Craigdarroch Castle takes restoration into the kitchen – 19th Century style
- Northern B.C. museum now home to 450 million years of history
- Expand vocabulary, visit Rossland Museum's 'Our Living Languages' exhibit – Trail Daily Times
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Get to know Sarah Wang, the BCMA IBPOC Network Coordinator, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Featured News:
- Black History Month highlighted by Coquitlam Heritage
- Mandrake the Magician exhibit celebrates world-famous illusionist's Surrey and New Westminster roots
- Black Canadians brought to the centre at Vancouver Art Gallery
- North Peace Museum receives update on mammoth tooth study
- Maritime Museum of BC unveils Float the Boat fundraising campaign
- New exhibit blooming at Central BC Forestry and Railway Museum
- North Pacific Cannery to receive a portion of $16 million in provincial funding
- Nisga’a scholar launches new Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at UBC
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Today we’re joined by Grace Wong, from the Chinese Canadian Museum to chat about the museum, how it came to be and what the future looks like for the museum.
As mentioned in the podcast, check out the Chinese Canadian Museum's upcoming digital event:
Cousins Across the Water in Conversation: Lunar New Year
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
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!
Featured News:
- Chinese-Canadian Museum showcases unique cultures of migrant ancestors
- MacKenzie Art Gallery Appoints First-Ever Indigenous Museum Director in Canada
- New online exhibit puts spotlight on B.C.'s Black pioneers
- Our Community: Aviation museum monument honours B.C. pilot
- Volunteer at Sidney's Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea marks major milestone – Vancouver Island Free Daily
- Men’s Shed would be a throwback to Port Moody’s roots
- History museums launch new program to address lack of representation in stories about Toronto
- New foundation to advance Canadian Museum of Nature Arctic projects in 2021
- Prince George museum needs healthy houseplants for new project
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Get to know Leia Patterson, the BCMA's new Learning Resources Coordinator, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Get to know Koy Tayler, the BCMA’s new Indigenous Outreach & Partnership Coordinator, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. We’re excited to preview this new collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website.
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. We’re excited to preview this new collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website.