Feeling a little thinned-out financially after the Christmas rush?
The Royal British Columbia Museum is opening its core galleries and the Canadian Modern exhibit starting Monday for a week of admission by donation.
Community Days lasts until Jan. 12 and visitors are invited to explore and get re-acquainted with the museum’s galleries, including two recently refreshed spaces, the Jonathan Hunt House and Our Living Languages, which was developed in partnership with the First Peoples’ Cultural Council.
Alongside longstanding visitor favourite HMCS Discovery is a re-imagined space called Forgotten Landscapes. In May 2023, exhibition teams uncovered long-lost landscape paintings from the early 1900s. Initially meant to display taxidermy, the showcases were later repurposed for maritime artifacts. Now, these paintings are back on display.
Donations during Community Days help to fund museum operations, including creating online learning programs and events, collecting specimens from across the province, digitizing historical photographs and documents and conserving artifacts.
Letter Writing Week goes Jan. 9 to 13 at the museum, which provides paper, pens, envelopes and even the stamps to reacquaint yourself with the lost art of letter writing.
