The Royal BC Museum's controversial yet beloved Old Town exhibit is being reimagined. When it's ready to open, though, is up for debate.
The Royal BC Museum’s controversial Old Town display isn’t going anywhere. Instead, it’s going to be reimagined in a more inclusive way.
Dubois says RBCM doesn’t have the mandate from the province, nor the funds, to deal with the hazardous material. As a result, more than a year after the entire third floor closed to the public, Old Town is here to stay. The story it tells, however, will be updated. The exhibit was critiqued as a lopsided display of European settler history. One that, by nature of its surrounding exhibits, excluded and kept separate the voices and experiences of British Columbia’s Indigenous people.
“You walk up to the third floor, on one side you have First Nations and Indigenous history, on the other side you have everything else. There’s this divisiveness and almost anthropological approach to the First People’s Gallery, which doesn’t really reflect the storyline of history.”There is, however, one thing that will stay the same — the Chinatown display.
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