BC Museums Association Podcast

MuseNews Ep. 28: Promotions, Progress and Permanence

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!

 

Featured News for May 2023:

• Prince George art gallery names new executive director

• ‘Overdue’: B.C. First Nations welcome Pope’s hint that Vatican will return Indigenous artifacts

• BC government provides $20 million to repair Science World's leaky dome

• Sacred Journey makes a splash as it lands at Victoria’s Royal B.C. Museum

• Chilliwack Museum saw exhibition admissions more than double to 5,086 in 2022

• Indigenous artifact to return to Squamish Nation following Prince Edward visit

• Rare blankets made from fur of extinct woolly dog on display at North Vancouver museum

More News We Couldn't Fit In! 

• Britannia Mine Museum Marks 100 Years of BC's Mill No.3
• Victoria Dinosaur Museum if a Hands on Experience
• New Exhibit at Port Moody Station Museum Reflects on South Asian Immigration
• New Exhibit explores Legacy of Haida Artist Bill Reid alongside contemporary Indigenous Art 
• Museum of Surrey's Spring Exhibits

BCMW: BC Museum Portraits, Interview with Spencer Stuart

BC Museums Week 2023:

BC Museum Portraits, Interview with Spencer Stuart

Spencer Stuart is travelling across British Columbia speaking with museum workers in communities large and small as part of the BC Museum Portraits project. Join Spencer and BCMA Program Manager Lorenda Calvert for a discussion about shared themes from these museum portraits and reflect on the valuable role that museums and their workers play in their communities.

MuseNews Episode 27: Galleries, Gurdwaras, and Great Big Dinosaurs

News from this episode:

• Penticton Art Gallery's full funding restored

• A sawmill storage house in southeast B.C. was home to North America's first gurdwara, researcher says

• B.C. pledges $10M funding boost for Chinese Canadian Museum ahead of opening

• Organization looking for permanent home to house Terry Fox collection
  
• Whistler Museum inks land transfer, launches fundraising portal for new building
• Buster, a dinosaur unique to B.C., comes to life in new exhibit

Also, Lorenda Calvert reports live from the Canadian Museums Association's Hill Day in Ottawa.

Muse News Episode 26: Openings, Closings and Everything In-between

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!

 

Featured News for March 2023:

• Vancouver Chinatown's new Chinese Canadian Museum to open this summer
• Royal BC Museum brings public engagement tour to Kelowna
• New exhibit in Prince George gallery brings personal perspective to Métis history
• Vancouver Island community receives $254K grant to protect Indigenous artifacts from natural disasters
• Penticton Art Gallery to appear before council after having funding cut, mayor says
• Historic Point Ellice House closing in Victoria
• Climate activist spreads paint on mammoth at Royal B.C. Museum

BCMA Podcast: Museums - Battlegrounds for Decent Work

Join the BCMA and Point Ellice House Assistant Curator, Christeah Dupont, as we chat about one of museum's biggest problems: decent work. Museum staff are overworked, underfunded, undersupported, and very often underappreciated - the sustainability of our sector may very well hinge on our support of decent work. 

 

Resources: 

Museums and Decent Work Youtube Channel

Aiding and Addressing Burnout

Living wages in BC and its benefit to your site and staff

Demystifying Unions

How Labour Relations Impact Emergency Planning in Museums

 

MuseNews Episode 25: Suitcases, Repatriation, and Transition

February 2023 news:

• Emotional return of house post connecting B.C.’s Gitxaala Nation to their ancestors
• Chilliwack Museum’s latest exhibit unpacks the effects of Japanese Canadian internment
• Two Rivers Gallery to feature unique Quebec art installation
• Nuxalk Nation celebrates return of totem pole from Royal B.C. Museum
• Art exhibit in Richmond, B.C., celebrates Black expression, connection

BCMA Webinar Series: All About Archeological Repositories

This is a recording from a webinar. 

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

Join the BCMA and Dr. Genevieve Hill, Curator of Archeology at the Royal BC Museum, to talk about all things archeological repositories! Log on and learn who archeological repositories are and what they do, their history and how they came to be, and some current issues and opportunities pertaining to repositories such as repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural belongings, UNDRIP/DRIPA, and working with indigenous communities. Dr. Hill will also cover things to consider when preparing cultural material for a repository and where to find support. 

BCMA Webinar Series: Records Management - Practical Tips for Cultural Organizations

This is a recording from a webinar.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

12:00noon – 1:00pm PDT

Good records management is essential to any organization. From paper files to emails, having a plan to manage the vast amount of information in our organizations can make a world of difference for operational efficiency, productivity and good decision-making.

Join the BCMA and Bronwen Bird of Gallery 2 for this engaging webinar on the fundamentals of records management. Learn how to create a vision and strategic plan for your records management, dive into surveying and evaluating your current records management practices and craft a records manual and filing system. You will leave the webinar with a deeper appreciation for records management and with tips on how to implement records management changes.

BCMA Webinar Series: Demystifying Unions

This is a recording from a webinar. 

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Join the BCMA and the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) for this engaging and important webinar. The BCGEU is one of the largest and most diverse unions in British Columbia who represent over 80,000 members in 550 bargaining units in the private sector and public services. In this webinar, Kari Michaels, Executive Vice President of the BCGEU, will explore what a union is, how they work, the steps required to unionize and what changes if you form a union.

MuseNews Episode 24: Policies, Poles and Protocols

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!

 

Featured News for January 2023:

• Lack of public art policy jeopardizes Vernon gallery funding
• Vancouver museum holds important piece of history from wreck believed to contain millions in gold
• Extraordinary life of Chief Dan George reflected in Okanagan museum exhibit
• ‘Honoured properly’: Protocols put in place for Indigenous exhibit at Vancouver’s Science World
• Million-dollar donation buoys Maritime Museum move plan
• Royal B.C. Museum returning totem to remote First Nation