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We’ve been so overwhelmed by the popularity of our “Forensics for Adults” workshops that we’ve added another series. On Wednesday nights in June, come to the museum to learn the basics of bloodstain pattern analysis, autopsies and firearms. We’ve also added a new workshop where we’ll be looking at broken glass, frayed rope, tool marks and more. Workshops (and dates) are as follows:
Blood Spatter
June 9 at 6:30PM or 8:00PM
This hour-long workshop will look at the messy (and precise) work of bloodstain pattern analysis. We’ll explore how the properties of blood and the physics of a situation can influence the spatter found at the crime scene by conducting our own experiments. Expect to get a little messy. If you’re prone to fainting, this isn’t the workshop for you.
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Forensic Pathology
June 16 at 6:30PM or 8:00PM
This hour-long workshop will explore, in detail, how autopsies are performed and how information can be gathered from a body to determine cause of death or solve a crime. We’ll get up-close-and-personal with some of the tools used for these kinds of investigations, all in the real facility that was once Vancouver’s city morgue (almost 15,000 autopsies were performed here between 1932-1980). Fainters probably shouldn’t take this one either.
Material Evidence
June 23 at 6:30PM or 8:00PM
This hour-long workshop will explore, in detail, the main kinds of material evidence found in crime scenes, from broken glass and fibre samples to tool marks. We’ll get up-close-and-personal with some of the tools used for these kinds of investigations, all in Vancouver’s former crime lab. Unless duct tape makes you faint, this workshop is fainter-approved.
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Ballistics
June 30 at 6:30PM or 8:00PM
This hour-long workshop will look at the kinds of evidence investigators use when a firearm may have been involved in a crime. Analysis of bullets (ballistic fingerprinting), bullet impacts, and trajectories as well as other firearm-related evidence will be discussed. (No, you won’t get to fire a gun but you’ll have so much fun it won’t matter.) This workshop is also fainter-friendly, we think.
Please note that tickets will not be available by phone or in-person; we will only be selling tickets online. Also, we’re not sure when/if we’ll be running these workshops again… this may be your last chance.
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Is there any thought to having daytime workshops in the summer? I’m from Victoria and I’d like to take a workshop, but the evening ones don’t work with the ferry schedule.
If you’re interested, we might approach the Victoria Police Museum and see if we could do something in Victoria… would that be even easier?
I just wished that you had these workshops avalible when
we were LIVING in Vancouver. Have been to the Vancouver Police Museum a few times…Always found it a very interesting place………….
It all sounds fascinating. I’d visit it if I didn’t live in Britain.
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