While smaller items have been removed, Old Town, the Discovery ship and the First Peoples Gallery remain in place, waiting for their stories to be told in a more inclusive way, says the museum’s CEO.
The third floor of the Royal B.C. Museum remains largely intact a year after it was closed to “decolonize” the province’s human history exhibits.
That consultation comes after a tumultuous year when the top-floor galleries, which represent a third of the museum’s space, were closed, and plans for a $789-million replacement building were announced with fanfare — then scuttled a few months later by then-Premier John Horgan after a massive public pushback.
The Royal B.C. Museum is also announcing this month its first major travelling exhibit since before the pandemic — Treasures of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, which is expected to draw crowds not seen since Leonardo da Vinci and Genghis Khan exhibits. Paired with an IMAX movie, it will run from June to the end of December.
Future dialogue sessions will also include public visits to exhibits on the third floor, Dubois said. Dubois was asked by some at the initial dialogue session why displays like Old Town could not remain open while the stories associated with them evolve. The settler displays of the farm, logging and mining as well as the Indigenous pit house will not be redesigned because they were built with materials containing asbestos.
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