BC Museums Association Podcast

The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Denman Island Museum and Archives:

• DD Fuchs, Board Member

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-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 Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!

Featured news for November 2022:

• Prince George museum re-opens with new look

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

The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory’ of the Province’s museums and archives. In this episode, Spencer interviews the team at Cortes Island Museum & Archives:

• Bonnie MacDonald, Executive Board Member

We’re excited to host this collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. View more here: https://museum.bc.ca/membership/bc-museum-portrait-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 Ryan and Leia as we explore the latest MuseNews!

Featured news for October 2022:

• The Richmond Museum's new exhibition, The Arts Live Here, celebrates the city's vibrant art scene with a wide range of exhibits

• Eerie Illusions

This week we are offering a recording of the Decolonization in Practice Panel from the BCMA and Heritage BC Joint Conference Act 1 in May 2022. This recording is being offered to provide background for the upcoming Roundup issue being released online, in which Beth Boyce, curator at the Museum at Campbell River, and Hereditary Chief Cecil Dawson, reflect on the exhibit ‘Standing in the Gap”.

Please note that this recording was originally a panel presentation, so you will hear cues like “next slide” and other such notes.

You can always find the most recent issue of Roundup on the BCMA homepage, on the right side. A new issue of Roundup will be published online in October, featuring a reflection piece from Beth and Chief Dawson, along with our regular column from Tammy Bradford, and other articles featuring various projects from around the province! Stay tuned!

The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.

Links from our conversation:

More About Burning Man

Learn about Mutant Vehicles

Heavy Meta

El Pulpo Mecanico by Duane Flatmo and Jerry Jerry Kunkel

The Midnight Museum of That One time at Burning Man by Jerry Snyder

Learn about MOOP and leaving no trace at Burning Man

The Museum of No Spectators by John Marx and Absinthia Vermut

We are grateful for support from the BC Arts Council.

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

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 Lorenda as we explore the latest MuseNews!

Featured news for September 2022:

• Vernon art gallery stunned by council decision to decline mural project with mental health focus | Globalnews.ca 

With the BC local government elections coming up on October 15, 2022, the BCMA, BC Alliance for Arts + Culture, and Arts BC are discussing all things advocacy. In this special Advocacy Week podcast, Ryan Hunt, BCMA Executive Director, speaks with Marijke Edmondson, Strategic Advisor, Local Government at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs. 

The BCMA has asked members for questions they have about how local governments work in British Columbia. Join Marijke and me as we discuss everything from “what’s a regional district,” to the importance of building relationships with local government staff, to why local government elections all happen at the same time.

The GLAM International Series will help galleries, libraries, archives, and museum professionals in BC reflect on what it means to be an informed citizen with a global perspective. Through this podcast series, we will interview innovators, disrupters, and thinkers that help to frame the work we do in an international context.

In this episode, Leia talks to Marley Leacock, the astronomer at the H.R MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver about the James Webb Space Telescope. Marley provides a brief review of the development and launch of the telescope - including some details about the Canadian Space Agency's involvement - before we dig into two of the images released to the public in July. Finally, we chat about how space centres will keep up with the expected influx of data and images from the Webb Telescope.

Related Links:

The Webb Telescope Website

Links to the Deep Field Image and the Carina Nebula Image discussed in the show.

Image of Stephan's Quintet Marley discussed.

Marley's blog post on the Telescope background and about the Scientific Mission goals

Canadian Space Agency NIRISS Transmission Spectrum of WASP-96B

To see the oldest galaxy pointed out in the Deep Field Image, look here!

We will have more episodes in this series coming this summer of 2022 - Stay tuned for more!

Music courtesy of Chad Crouch, The Sound Of Picture Production Library.

Get to know Jazmin Hundal, the BCMA’s new Special Projects and Communications Coordinator, in this 90-second OWL You Need to Know micro-podcast!