Museum chief executive Alicia Dubois said remaking the museum will take time. \u0022You have to listen and plan.”
While some smaller items have been removed and stored — and some repatriated to First Nations — 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, museum chief executive Alicia Dubois said in an interview on Friday.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
SUE the T. Rex, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, will open in June, taking over a 5,000-square-foot area formerly occupied by the Living Languages exhibit and Century Hall. Space for the 40-foot-long, 13-foot-tall T. Rex, unearthed in North Dakota in 1990 and loaned by the Field Museum, was being prepared this week.
The First Peoples Gallery is being modified as a meeting space for consultations with First Nations. At least one totem is being returned to an undisclosed First Nation in coming weeks, while another two viewable from behind glass outside the museum were repatriated in October, said Dubois. Dubois said remaking the museum will take time. “Museums around the world have three-year exhibition plans and five-year exhibition plans … you just can’t hang things up. You have to listen and plan.”
“The challenge for [the museum] is that we are a Crown agency and we feel like the government. We’ve just gone through a period of being politicized and so for us, we need to build our own relationships and we’re here to change the museum, here to be a facilitator of storytelling instead of the authority.”
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