Off the 'Cuff

We talk a fair bit about the tunnels under Vancouver’s Chinatown on the “Sins of the City” walking tour.  Real? Speculation? Check out this article about tunnels under Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mysterious-chinese-tunnels.html I’ll post soon about the “truth” behind our own tunnels…

I’ve always found that writing press releases is a challenging process. Finding just the right words, in the minimum necessary space, is surprisingly difficult. (Especially when you’re used to giving rambling two hour tours on a subject…) I’ve attended, and given, countless workshops about this stuff, but it’s still a grind to get something together [...]

Paul Grant was nice enough to let me post his interview with me on this blog. Here is an audio file of the interview: On the Coast Interview. (5MB, mp3) Paul Grant is the National Arts Reporter for CBC Radio based in Vancouver. This interview originally appeared on On The Coast (http://www.cbc.ca/onthecoast/) on Wednesday, July [...]

Over the last three years, our Sins of the City walking tours have been incredibly popular and have resulted in big increases in museum visitorship over the summer and also lots of free publicity. Today, I’m going to provide some links to some of the things people have had to say about the Sins tour [...]

One of the big challenges about running a small museum is a very limited marketing budget. We know we’ve got a cool place, neat exhibits and fantastic programs but getting the word out on a shoestring budget like ours is really tough. We can’t afford what the big attractions can–things like getting our rack card [...]