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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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Monday Dec 19, 2022
BC Museum Portraits Project: Galiano Museum Society
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
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. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Galiano Museum Society:
- Mechelle Crocker, Executive Board Member
- Carol Robson, Executive Board Member
- Mary Jean Elliott, Executive Board Member
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Monday Dec 12, 2022
BC Museum Portraits Project: Gabriola Historical and Museum Society
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
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. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Gabriola Historical and Museum Society:
- Liz Ciocea, Director
- Joan Merrifield, President
- Laura Baldamus, Museum Manager
- Janet Stobbs, Archivist
- Chris Campbell, Director
- Gloria Filax, Former Board Member
- Alison Douglas, Former Board Member
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Monday Dec 05, 2022
BC Museums Portrait Project: Denman Island Museum and Archives
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
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. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Denman Island Museum and Archives:
- DD Fuchs, Board Member
- Barry Landeen, Archivist
- Ann Paisley, Museum display & collections
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
MuseNews Episode 22: Darn-it, Digs, and Dispossession
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
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 November 2022:
- Prince George museum re-opens with new look
- Darn-it! New Maritime Museum of BC Exhibit opens
- Chinese Canadian Museum names first Chief Executive
- Ancient bison bones unearthed at Saanich construction site
- Volunteers seek to uncover ‘paper trail’ of Japanese Canadian dispossession
- Pitt Meadows Museum nears finish line of relocation planning
- New interactive, online exhibit features Richmond’s turning points
To submit your Muse News or Whoo's News, email bmca@museum.bc.ca

Monday Nov 28, 2022
BC Museums Portrait Project: Cortes Island Museum & Archives
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
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. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Cortes Island Museum & Archives:
- Bonnie MacDonald, Executive Board Member
- Laurel Bohart, Curator, Wild Cortes
- Jill Milton, Archivist
- Melanie Boyle, Managing Director
We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-program/

Sunday Oct 30, 2022
MuseNews Episode 21: Reopenings, Richmond, and Really Spooky News
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
Sunday Oct 30, 2022
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 October 2022:
- The Richmond Museum's new exhibition, The Arts Live Here, celebrates the city's vibrant art scene with a wide range of exhibits
- Museum exhibit highlights Truth and Reconciliation Day for Westbank First Nation
Sncəwips Museum premiering “What Does it Mean to be Syilx?” - B.C. Aviation Museum lands both a retired air tanker and its long-time pilot
- Exploration Place reopening next Saturday
- Seasonal Spooky News

Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Decolonization in Practice Panel (May 2022) With Beth Boyce and Chief Cecil Dawson
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
This week we are offering a recording of the Decolonization in Practice Panel from the BCMA and Heritage BC Joint Conference Act 1 in May 2022. This recording is being offered to provide background for the upcoming Roundup issue being released online, in which Beth Boyce, curator at the Museum at Campbell River, and Hereditary Chief Cecil Dawson, reflect on the exhibit ‘Standing in the Gap”.
Please note that this recording was originally a panel presentation, so you will hear cues like “next slide” and other such notes.
You can always find the most recent issue of Roundup on the BCMA homepage, on the right side. A new issue of Roundup will be published online in October, featuring a reflection piece from Beth and Chief Dawson, along with our regular column from Tammy Bradford, and other articles featuring various projects from around the province! Stay tuned!

Monday Oct 03, 2022
GLAM International: Burning Man Arts and Culture with Lorenda Calvert
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.
In this episode, Leia talks to fellow BCMA staffer Lorenda Calvert about Burning Man arts and culture. Lorenda shares how she got involved in Burning Man, Black Rock City as a large-scale art gallery, and three ‘museums’ at Burning Man. Finally, we chat about the sector in general and how some of the teachings at Burning Man might help shake up how we engage the public.
Links from our conversation:
El Pulpo Mecanico by Duane Flatmo and Jerry Jerry Kunkel
The Midnight Museum of That One time at Burning Man by Jerry Snyder
Learn about MOOP and leaving no trace at Burning Man
The Museum of No Spectators by John Marx and Absinthia Vermut
We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.
Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
MuseNews Episode 20: Museums, Murals and Misunderstandings
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
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 for September 2022:
- Vernon art gallery stunned by council decision to decline mural project with mental health focus | Globalnews.ca
- Tumbler Ridge fossils identified - BC News - Castanet.net
- Royal B.C. Museum apologizes after 2017 carving declared ancient Indigenous artifact
- Nisga'a Nation travelling to see stolen totem pole in Scotland - APTN News
- What is a museum? Icom finally decides on a new definition
- Indigenous objects repatriated from small British museum come home to Haida Gwaii
- 'Come in and explore': BC Aviation Museum holds first open house since pandemic
- Thor Froslev, founder of B.C.'s eagle count and Squamish art gallery, dead at 89 | CBC News
Human rights museum chooses Vancouver to launch digital residential school initiative

Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Local Government 101 with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
With the BC local government elections coming up on October 15, 2022, the BCMA, BC Alliance for Arts + Culture, and Arts BC are discussing all things advocacy. In this special Advocacy Week podcast, Ryan Hunt, BCMA Executive Director, speaks with Marijke Edmondson, Strategic Advisor, Local Government at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.
The BCMA has asked members for questions they have about how local governments work in British Columbia. Join Marijke and me as we discuss everything from “what’s a regional district,” to the importance of building relationships with local government staff, to why local government elections all happen at the same time.