The Royal B.C. Museum offered a look at its Old Town exhibit more than a year after the museum closed its third floor in an effort to decolonize the facility and address issues of racism and reconciliation.
On Monday, the Royal B.C. Museum pulled back the curtain and offered a look at its Old Town exhibit more than a year after the museum closed its third floor in an effort to decolonize the facility and address issues of racism and reconciliation.
Knox was at the museum on Monday and lit a fire inside the big house that his great grandfather father, Mungo Martin, built nearly 70 years ago to celebrate the end of bans on potlaches in the province. More than a year after the floor was closed, some rooms and cases are empty, with artifacts returned to Indigenous communities or packed up for archives. But the Old Town exhibit and the replica of Captain George Vancouver’s ship look much the same."The bones of the third floor are still here," said Popham after the tour.
"We actually could not take down Old Town, it's so full of asbestos behind the scenes," said museum CEO Alicia Dubois during the tour.
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