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Entries from August 2011

From the Curator’s Office: Museology according to Natalie

August 28th, 2011 2 Comments

It was the most hideous thing I had ever seen in my young life. Its name, printed in black ink on a little white card affixed to the gallery wall was ‘Confedspread’.  And to my eight-year old mind it was downright hideous. My grandmother, an avid fan of all art but more specifically the often [...]

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Use It or Lose It!

August 11th, 2011 2 Comments

My relationship with museums, from an educational perspective, has been what I would call a “passionate love affair.”  The reasons I have been working for the Vancouver Police Museum the past three years are significant in my pursuing a career in education. Museums are incredible places where the worlds of both history and education collide [...]

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