Spring Break is just around the corner and here at the Police Museum we are gearing up for another great session of intriguing forensic science workshops. This year we are offering all of last years favourites including fingerprints, blood spatter, entomology, ballistics and impression evidence. All workshops are one hour long and encourage youth to [...]
Tags: ballistics · blood spatter · entomology · fingerprints · Forensics · spring break
A few weeks ago, we went out with a GPS device (Global Positioning System) and a few magnetic key boxes, hiding them around the city. This marked the start of our participation in a little sport/hobby called geocaching. What is geocaching? According to Wikipedia: Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a [...]
Tags: Chinatown · geocaching · geotagging · historical crime · history
Hard to believe it’s only a few days until the 2010 Olympic Winter Games descend on Vancouver; more than 350,000 visitors are expected to visit Vancouver and Whistler over the two-and-a-half weeks of the games. You can’t imagine how much we want to see some of those folks come through our doors… The only problem? [...]
Tags: Current Events · Marketing · Olympics · Sins of the City · Special Events
