BC Museums Association Podcast

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

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.

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

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

In this episode, listen as IBPOC Network Coordinator Jazmin Hundal andIndigenous 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 [email protected].

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

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, with Ryan on location, as we explore the latest MuseNews!

Featured News for June 2023

• Britannia Mine Museum brings back 'Old Town, New Queens'
• Tumbler Ridge archivist celebrated
• British Museum apologizes for using Canadian translator's work without permission
• B.C. First Nation buys back 140-year-old robe, paying almost $40K to bring it home
• B.C.'s last Martin Mars water bomber could be headed to Victoria museum
• B.C. Indigenous artist collecting sounds across Canada for virtual Witness Blanket

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

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.

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.