BC Museums Association Podcast

Join our host Lorenda and SGaan Kwahagang James McGuire, Collections & Engagement Coordinator at Saahlinda Naay - the Haida Gwaii Museum, for a conversation about the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Museums must prioritize consent-based curation. Consider how your organization approaches repatriation and truth-telling. 

Resources:

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (U.S. National Park Service)

Interior Department Announces Final Rule for Implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act - Province of British Columbia

Research and Film Applications

How Museums Can Respond to Residential School Denialism - BCMA

BCMA Book Club

The Repatriation Handbook

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Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Ryan as we explore the latest MuseNews!

April 2024 News:

• BC Sports Hall Of Fame comes alive with immersive digital Indigenous gallery

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Lorenda and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!

March 2024 News:

• Lantern designed by acclaimed First Nations artist stolen outside Vancouver Art Gallery 

To submit your Muse News or Whoo’s News, email [email protected]

This episode was converted from a recorded webinar. 

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Since 2020, we have globally seen a rise in remote and hybrid work, but as we return to a “new normal,” many workplaces are abandoning these models. However, many museums, galleries, and heritage sites have limited workspace, equipment, accessibility, and funding obligations that make the idea of hiring a remote or hybrid employee simultaneously intriguing and complicated.  

On January 24, join Tammy Bradford for a webinar on the ins and outs of embracing work-from-home and hybrid positions in your workplace. Tammy will discuss the Creston Museum’s process of creating hybrid positions, the multifaceted benefits of work-from-home positions for both employers and employees and some specific objections and hesitations that the Creston Museum has had to address in their process.

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!

February 2024 news:

New Indigenous heist movie focuses on repatriation of belongings

Executive director for Revelstoke Railway Museum to retire

No return date set for Vancouver Public Library's Inspiration Pass

Exploration Place announces retirement of CEO Tracy Calogheros

Quilt made by over 300 Canadian, African grandmas coming to Nelson

Sidney Museum puts on block party with Lego exhibit

To submit your Muse News or Whoo's News, email [email protected]

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!

Stories for the month of January 2024:

• A tangled mess: Canadian forgery scandal comes into full public view

Join our host Lorenda for a conversation about the new Inspiring Museum Educators Bursary. Established with the support of Dr. Lisa McIntosh in 2023, this bursary encourages the pursuit of excellence in education within the museum, gallery, and heritage sector. The Inspiring Museum Educators Bursary provides up to $2,000 for staff or volunteers of BC Museums Association’s Institutional or Individual Members, to engage in an educational opportunity (course, seminar, workshop, or conference) that supports the development of new skills, innovative approaches and novel ways of thinking about teaching and learning in informal settings.

Suggested opportunities: 

• University of British Columbia’s Master of Museum Education Program

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, Lorenda and special guest Santa as we explore our favourite MuseNews!

In this final MuseNews of 2023, each of our hosts picked their favourite stories to reshare. Thank you to our listeners for another wonderful year of news. Happy New Year!

Stories we replayed this month:

• ‘Honoured properly’: Protocols put in place for Indigenous exhibit at Vancouver’s Science World

Join our host Lorenda Calvert in conversation with Sean Holman of the Climate Disaster Project. Sean is the Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism at the University of Victoria, a former investigative journalist, and an information historian.

• Climate Disaster Project

Welcome to MuseNews, the BCMA’s monthly museum sector news podcast. Each month we recap some of the latest news, happenings, and announcements from museums, galleries, and heritage organizations across BC and beyond. Join Leia, Ryan, and Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!

Stories for the month of November 2023:

Expansion Project at shawnigan lake museum nets $500,000 grant

BC government begins planning South Asian museum in Metro Vancouver

BC filmmaker races to interview Canada’s Second World War veterans before they are all gone

Exploration Place celebrates milestones

B.C. Vintage Truck Museum could lose its home with six months’ notice