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Seth is a journalism student at Langara College. Growing up in Ottawa, Ontario, he played soccer in his free time, something he enjoys to this day, and was known for being a troublemaker. “I speak my mind sometimes too often, and I could use a…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
Youth, holding a Tahltan dagger shealth
Shandri, 2017
I am Tahltan/ Nisga’a I am looking for my traditions I am learning to speak my language I am listening to my ancestors I am remembering my family I used to be a child but now I am a wolf I am waiting for my call I am running with the sun I am…
Exhibition: I Am Here
Light breeze blowing here Cute little peacocks walking Big long wooden fence. Submitted by Jasper.
High trees very high Beautiful landscape and peace I see dogs so cute. Submitted by Rosa.
John Fannin, the museum’s first curator and taxidermy enthusiast, pictured in the provincial museum’s natural history collection. He became the first curator of what is now known as the Royal BC Museum in 1886. At the time, it was nothing more than…
As a born and bred Victorian, I’ve been going to the museum for as long as I can remember. After university, I moved to Alberta for a few years and looked forward to every visit home. My mum was a teacher, so I had extra time to spend with her, but…
This photo is from a photo-essay of Christopher Weeks’s called “Ghost Town - Images of the Vancouver Pandemic”. Submitted by Christopher Weeks.
Exhibition: COVID-19
Many kids are building forts at home during isolation as parents work at kitchen tables and bedrooms with closed doors. No daycare, no playgrounds, no friends and what is this virus everyone is afraid of? .... something so comforting about a fort of…
Exhibition: COVID-19
Yokohama-e is a genre of Japanese painting that developed in the early 1860s in Yokohama as a result of cultural and political intersection with Western nations after centuries of self-imposed seclusion.  These are paintings carried out in the…
Exhibition: For The Records