BC Museums Association Podcast

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

Welcome to the Digital Dialogues

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.

MuseNews Ep. 31: Compensation, Community and Cool Finds

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

 

BCMA Podcast: Copy Rights and Copy Wrongs

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

IBPOC Network Podcast Episode 2: Nicole Priessl and the Burnaby Village Museum

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.

MuseNews Ep. 30: July 2023 Prints, Power, and Paldi

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