BC Museums Association Podcast

MuseNews Ep. 38: Theft, Fire, and Hard Work.

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

BCMA Webinar Series: Work from Home & Remote Positions - Experiences from the Creston Museum

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.

MuseNews Ep.37: Heists, Hiatuses, and Handovers

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

 

MuseNews Ep.36: Scandalous Exhibits, Seismic Upgrades, and Salish Dogs

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

BCMA Podcast: Inspiring Museum Educators

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

MuseNews Ep. 35: Year End Favourites

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

 

BCMA Podcast: A Conversation with the Climate Disaster Project

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

MuseNews Ep.34: Commitments, Convergence and Closure

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

MuseNews Ep. 33: Breath, BC Ferries, and BC Fossils

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

MuseNews Ep. 32: New Exhibits, New Buildings, and New Normals

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